Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Auto, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.57%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.49%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (NS:PGRD), which rose 1.83% or 3.70 points to trade at 206.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) added 0.95% or 5.10 points to end at 543.80 and Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (NS:ARBN) was up 0.95% or 6.30 points to 672.25 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB), which fell 2.60% or 4.30 points to trade at 160.85 at the close. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (NS:IOC) declined 2.57% or 10.10 points to end at 383.40 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was down 2.11% or 9.55 points to 443.15.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (BO:PGRD) which rose 1.84% to 205.30, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 0.97% to settle at 543.95 and Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which gained 0.86% to close at 256.85.
The worst performers were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 2.14% to 443.10 in late trade, Hero MotoCorp Limited (BO:HROM) which lost 1.95% to settle at 3660.30 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 1.94% to 288.85 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1252 to 300 and 11 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1902 fell and 650 advanced, while 128 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.12% to 11.5575.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.73% or 9.17 to $1258.57 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.14% or 0.06 to hit $42.80 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.13% or 0.06 to trade at $45.28 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.09% to 64.530, while EUR/INR fell 0.03% to 72.0274.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 97.10.