Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Real Estate, Technology and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.45%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.42%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC), which rose 3.94% or 3.90 points to trade at 102.85 at the close. Meanwhile, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD) added 3.66% or 7.45 points to end at 210.90 and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) was up 1.61% or 10.90 points to 689.95 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT), which fell 2.67% or 100.20 points to trade at 3651.80 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) declined 2.53% or 20.20 points to end at 779.50 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) was down 2.41% or 3.20 points to 129.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which rose 3.51% to 210.75, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 3.38% to settle at 102.55 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 1.82% to close at 670.85.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 2.63% to 778.60 in late trade, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which lost 2.30% to settle at 5080.25 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was down 1.84% to 950.40 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 907 to 723 and 77 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1537 rose and 1275 declined, while 165 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.45% to 22.6900.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.29% or 5.15 to $1787.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.52% or 0.32 to hit $61.75 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.31% or 0.20 to trade at $65.60 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.13% to 75.016, while EUR/INR rose 0.17% to 90.4010.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 91.047.