Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Real Estate, Metals and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.90%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.93%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC), which rose 4.52% or 7.10 points to trade at 164.35 at the close. Meanwhile, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) added 4.36% or 6.65 points to end at 158.65 and Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) was up 2.26% or 5.25 points to 237.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE), which fell 4.28% or 18.60 points to trade at 416.45 at the close. Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) declined 3.28% or 5.70 points to end at 168.25 and Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) was down 3.53% or 11.15 points to 306.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 3.90% to 158.50, Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was up 2.09% to settle at 236.80 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which gained 1.56% to close at 201.60.
The worst performers were Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was down 3.28% to 168.25 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which lost 2.31% to settle at 171.35 and Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 2.18% to 247.00 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1272 to 364 and 46 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1835 fell and 758 advanced, while 154 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.44% to 16.6725.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.34% or 4.50 to $1323.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.03% or 0.02 to hit $59.02 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.28% or 0.19 to trade at $66.56 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.36% to 68.920, while EUR/INR fell 0.37% to 77.9945.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 96.060.