Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Real Estate, Oil & Gas and Capital Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.50%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NSE:HLL), which rose 2.51% or 58.30 points to trade at 2,380.00 at the close. Britannia Industries Ltd (NSE:BRIT) added 1.79% or 89.90 points to end at 5,102.50 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NSE:EICH) was up 1.45% or 74.05 points to 5,190.25 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NSE:REDY), which fell 4.90% or 63.20 points to trade at 1,226.20 in late trade. Trent Ltd (NSE:TREN) declined 4.09% or 234.60 points to end at 5,499.00 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NSE:MAHM) down 3.03% or 87.45 points to 2,799.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which rose 2.42% to 2,379.00, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 0.99% to settle at 1,214.40 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 0.75% to close at 1,725.70.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 2.94% to 2,800.55 in late trade, Zomato Ltd (BO:ZOMT) which lost 2.88% to settle at 215.50 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 2.49% to 733.80 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones by 1916 to 404 and 46 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2772 fell and 999 advanced, while 117 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.27% to 16.74.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.52% or 14.35 to $2,779.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.40% or 0.30 to hit $74.92 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.40% or 0.31 to trade at $78.60 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.28% to 86.19, while EUR/INR rose 0.48% to 90.46.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.50% at 107.32.