Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Capital Goods, Oil & Gas and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.18%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.27%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd . (NS:TAMO), which rose 2.45% or 11.15 points to trade at 466.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) added 2.33% or 23.00 points to end at 1010.70 and Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (NS:ARBN) was up 2.11% or 16.10 points to 778.95 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Idea Cellular Ltd (NS:IDEA), which fell 2.63% or 2.75 points to trade at 102.00 at the close. GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) declined 2.42% or 9.30 points to end at 375.50 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) was down 2.28% or 8.30 points to 355.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which rose 2.19% to 465.20, Hero MotoCorp Limited (BO:HROM) which was up 2.15% to settle at 3168.00 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which gained 1.27% to close at 519.75.
The worst performers were Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which was down 2.37% to 375.45 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 2.28% to settle at 355.00 and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BO:BHEL) which was down 1.57% to 137.85 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 898 to 557 and 57 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 982 fell and 637 advanced, while 40 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.47% to 15.0825 a new 1-month low.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.27% or 3.65 to $1358.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.60% or 0.27 to hit $45.41 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.50% or 0.23 to trade at $46.63 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.21% to 67.350, while EUR/INR fell 0.25% to 74.4950.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.15% at 96.19.