Investing.com – India equities were mixed at the close on Friday, as gains in the Banking, Public Sector Undertakings and Metals sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Auto, Oil & Gas and Real Estate sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.22%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.44%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL), which rose 6.41% or 7.90 points to trade at 131.15 at the close. AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) added 6.18% or 21.10 points to end at 362.50 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) was up 6.05% or 23.35 points to 409.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN), which lost 7.94% or 221.70 points to trade at 2572.00 in late trade. Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) declined 7.88% or 141.90 points to end at 1660.00 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) shed 5.68% or 24.75 points to 411.15.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which rose 4.98% to 359.70, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was up 3.63% to settle at 162.90 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 3.17% to close at 83.05.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 8.87% to 2546.45 in late trade, Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which lost 8.04% to settle at 1660.15 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 6.09% to 448.90 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 804 to 708 and 97 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1119 fell and 1069 advanced, while 160 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.60% to 70.3850.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 1.39% or 22.90 to $1628.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.58% or 0.13 to hit $22.73 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 1.37% or 0.36 to trade at $25.98 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.10% to 74.810, while EUR/INR fell 0.24% to 82.3810.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 99.540.