Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Real Estate, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Consumer Durables sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.36%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.38%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI), which rose 3.03% or 10.50 points to trade at 357.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Tata Motors Ltd . (NS:TAMO) added 2.21% or 10.05 points to end at 464.40 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (NS:HDFC) was up 2.19% or 26.35 points to 1227.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tata Power Co. Ltd (NS:TTPW), which fell 3.41% or 2.60 points to trade at 73.70 at the close. Bharti Infratel Limited (NS:BHRI) declined 2.74% or 9.550 points to end at 338.650 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (NS:TISC) was down 1.53% or 5.05 points to 325.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 2.73% to 355.70, Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which was up 2.21% to settle at 1227.80 and Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which gained 2.03% to close at 463.20.
The worst performers were Tata Power Co. Ltd (BO:TTPW) which was down 3.41% to 73.65 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 1.45% to settle at 742.80 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which was down 1.38% to 325.50 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 732 to 692 and 78 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 797 fell and 772 advanced, while 74 ended unchanged.
Shares in Bharti Infratel Limited (NS:BHRI) fell to 52-week lows; down 2.74% or 9.550 to 338.650.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.96% to 17.3500.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.57% or 7.45 to $1290.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.64% or 0.76 to hit $46.97 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 2.18% or 1.03 to trade at $48.22 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.34% to 67.090, while EUR/INR fell 0.10% to 75.5140.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.24% at 94.54.