Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.09%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.12%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT), which rose 2.55% or 20.80 points to trade at 835.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Idea Cellular Ltd (NS:IDEA) added 2.06% or 1.50 points to end at 74.40 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 1.22% or 277.25 points to 22995.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:REDY), which fell 3.14% or 99.05 points to trade at 3060.10 at the close. Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) declined 2.15% or 4.35 points to end at 198.20 and Coal India Limited (NS:COAL) was down 1.99% or 6.10 points to 300.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which rose 1.30% to 245.80, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 0.88% to settle at 2303.75 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which gained 0.62% to close at 5648.15.
The worst performers were Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (BO:REDY) which was down 3.00% to 3066.00 in late trade, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which lost 2.17% to settle at 198.05 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.88% to 910.30 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 784 to 693 and 81 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1567 rose and 1192 declined, while 110 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.81% to 15.4800.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.23% or 2.75 to $1176.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.54% or 0.83 to hit $53.16 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.58% or 0.90 to trade at $56.20 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.12% to 68.248, while EUR/INR rose 0.01% to 71.7676.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.26% at 102.44.