Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Real Estate, Oil & Gas and Healthcare sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.16%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.10%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL), which rose 2.61% or 4.25 points to trade at 167.30 at the close. Meanwhile, SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) added 1.84% or 20.70 points to end at 1147.05 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC) was up 1.22% or 29.35 points to 2441.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which fell 2.18% or 3.75 points to trade at 168.00 at the close. Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) declined 2.06% or 19.10 points to end at 909.10 and Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI) was down 2.00% or 88.80 points to 4353.40.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which rose 1.25% to 2440.85, Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was up 0.66% to settle at 1879.55 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 0.57% to close at 787.30.
The worst performers were UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was down 1.88% to 6915.55 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 1.36% to settle at 850.00 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 1.06% to 1707.10 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1302 to 513 and 22 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2132 fell and 1120 advanced, while 112 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.73% to 22.1650.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.66% or 12.60 to $1889.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 2.50% or 2.29 to hit $89.47 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 2.43% or 2.26 to trade at $90.71 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.63% to 74.640, while EUR/INR fell 0.55% to 84.8410.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 95.810.