Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the IT, Technology and Capital Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.45%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.53%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which rose 4.22% or 16.25 points to trade at 400.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) added 3.13% or 10.80 points to end at 358.10 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 4.08% or 895.40 points to 22753.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI), which fell 4.07% or 9.85 points to trade at 232.00 at the close. Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) declined 2.85% or 20.30 points to end at 693.20 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) was down 2.18% or 37.55 points to 1682.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 3.74% to 399.60, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 2.35% to settle at 117.80 and Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which gained 2.27% to close at 142.15.
The worst performers were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 2.89% to 693.15 in late trade, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which lost 2.20% to settle at 2070.55 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 2.14% to 1682.95 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 813 to 730 and 87 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1262 fell and 1175 advanced, while 174 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.68% to 14.8725 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.47% or 6.95 to $1470.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.41% or 0.24 to hit $58.34 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.14% or 0.09 to trade at $63.88 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.02% to 71.755, while EUR/INR rose 0.05% to 79.3650.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 97.910.