Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, Green Energy and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the S&P CNX Nifty lost 0.01% to hit a new 1-month low, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.15%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P CNX Nifty were Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB), which rose 4.80% or 7.65 points to trade at 167.05 at the close. Meanwhile, State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) added 3.89% or 9.10 points to end at 243.00 and Punjab National Bank (NS:PNBK) was up 2.55% or 3.30 points to 132.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:REDY), which fell 14.56% or 618.75 points to trade at 3630.65 at the close. Bosch Ltd (NS:BOSH) declined 2.65% or 527.35 points to end at 19365.25 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (NS:TISC) was down 2.28% or 5.15 points to 220.25.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 3.86% to 243.25, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was up 1.67% to settle at 952.45 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which gained 1.39% to close at 1138.05.
The worst performers were Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (BO:REDY) which was down 14.65% to 3629.55 in late trade, TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which lost 2.44% to settle at 220.10 and Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which was down 2.22% to 288.65 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 945 to 492 and 12 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 502 fell and 277 advanced, while 3 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of S&P CNX Nifty options, was up 0.93% to 19.4725.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.27% or 3.00 to $1107.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.93% or 0.42 to hit $45.62 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 1.13% or 0.54 to trade at $48.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.14% to 65.796, while EUR/INR fell 0.18% to 71.5470.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.12% at 98.21.