Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Banking sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.05%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.08%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART), which rose 3.83% or 43.30 points to trade at 1172.40 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 1.56% or 6.20 points to end at 403.50 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) was up 1.41% or 14.05 points to 1007.55 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM), which fell 3.36% or 45.00 points to trade at 1294.95 at the close. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) declined 2.87% or 63.95 points to end at 2161.00 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was down 2.05% or 10.75 points to 513.35.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which rose 4.07% to 1172.30, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 1.65% to settle at 404.00 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which gained 0.98% to close at 1788.00.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 3.29% to 1294.70 in late trade, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which lost 2.93% to settle at 2158.80 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.87% to 471.05 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 950 to 598 and 23 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1467 fell and 1080 advanced, while 124 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.35% to 12.9625.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.69% or 9.29 to $1359.59 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.29% or 0.14 to hit $48.95 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.53% or 0.29 to trade at $54.78 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.13% to 63.885, while EUR/INR rose 0.15% to 77.0798.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 91.08.