Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Real Estate, Healthcare and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 2.23%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 2.13%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 1.87% or 1.50 points to trade at 81.85 at the close. Meanwhile, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS) added 0.33% or 7.40 points to end at 2245.95 and HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK) was down 0.26% or 2.85 points to 1111.65 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which fell 7.42% or 41.25 points to trade at 514.50 at the close. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) declined 5.78% or 12.35 points to end at 201.50 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was down 5.76% or 12.95 points to 211.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 1.74% to 81.70, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 0.37% to settle at 2245.35 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which lost 0.10% to close at 1113.85.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 7.34% to 515.00 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 5.69% to settle at 212.05 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which was down 5.34% to 6194.95 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1483 to 177 and 45 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2213 fell and 458 advanced, while 133 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 24.46% to 22.8350.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.10% or 1.95 to $1972.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 1.26% or 0.54 to hit $43.51 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 1.40% or 0.64 to trade at $46.45 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.50% to 73.480, while EUR/INR rose 0.68% to 87.5845.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 92.312.