Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Consumer Durables, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Carbon sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.19%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 1.33%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 2.74% or 9.70 points to trade at 364.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL) added 1.88% or 4.75 points to end at 258.35 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 0.95% or 279.95 points to 29663.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which fell 2.86% or 19.05 points to trade at 646.20 at the close. Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) declined 2.82% or 7.75 points to end at 266.85 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) was down 2.53% or 67.60 points to 2604.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which rose 0.70% to 201.50, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 0.40% to settle at 2071.60 and Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (BO:APSE) which gained 0.37% to close at 381.45.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 2.85% to 646.15 in late trade, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which lost 2.38% to settle at 1880.40 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 2.35% to 260.20 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 880 to 719 and 67 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1411 fell and 1234 advanced, while 163 ended unchanged.
Shares in Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) fell to 3-years lows; falling 2.82% or 7.75 to 266.85.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 4.71% to 14.4950.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.14% or 1.70 to $1202.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.67% or 0.46 to hit $69.23 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.63% or 0.49 to trade at $78.58 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.44% to 72.424, while EUR/INR rose 1.09% to 84.4405.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 94.31.