Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Metals, Public Sector Undertakings and Capital Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.36%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.41%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which rose 5.15% or 1414.25 points to trade at 28997.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) added 3.10% or 12.05 points to end at 401.60 and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL) was up 1.69% or 4.75 points to 286.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were State Bank Of India (NS:SBI), which fell 4.63% or 14.70 points to trade at 304.45 at the close. GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) declined 3.00% or 11.25 points to end at 362.95 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was down 2.97% or 16.95 points to 554.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which rose 1.41% to 3321.40, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was up 1.26% to settle at 945.00 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which gained 0.98% to close at 1993.85.
The worst performers were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 3.79% to 304.45 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 3.00% to settle at 553.60 and Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was down 2.97% to 223.65 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1064 to 530 and 58 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1624 fell and 1009 advanced, while 121 ended unchanged.
Shares in Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) rose to all time highs; rising 1.26% or 11.75 to 945.00.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.36% to 12.8500.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.22% or 2.70 to $1217.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.19% or 0.13 to hit $66.94 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.28% or 0.20 to trade at $72.27 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.01% to 68.858, while EUR/INR fell 0.34% to 78.9940.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.39% at 95.83.