Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.09%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT), which rose 2.55% or 20.80 points to trade at 835.20 at the close. Idea Cellular Ltd (NS:IDEA) added 2.06% or 1.50 points to end at 74.40 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 1.22% or 277.25 points to 22995.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:REDY), which lost 3.14% or 99.05 points to trade at 3060.10 in late trade. Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) declined 2.15% or 4.35 points to end at 198.20 and Coal India Limited (NS:COAL) shed 1.99% or 6.10 points to 300.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which rose 1.30% to 245.80, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 0.88% to settle at 2303.75 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which gained 0.62% to close at 5648.15.
The worst performers were Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (BO:REDY) which was down 3.00% to 3066.00 in late trade, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which lost 2.17% to settle at 198.05 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.88% to 910.30 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 784 to 693 and 81 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1567 rose and 1192 declined, while 110 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.81% to 15.4800.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 0.23% or 2.65 to $1176.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.56% or 0.84 to hit $53.15 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.58% or 0.90 to trade at $56.20 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.12% to 68.248, while EUR/INR rose 0.03% to 71.7779.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.26% at 102.44.