Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Real Estate, Banking and IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the S&P CNX Nifty declined 0.20%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.17%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P CNX Nifty were Coal India Limited (NSE:COAL), which rose 4.32% or 16.80 points to trade at 405.35 at the close. Meanwhile, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NSE:ZEE) added 3.46% or 11.25 points to end at 336.60 and GAIL Ltd (NSE:GAIL) was up 3.21% or 12.00 points to 386.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NSE:ABUJ), which fell 3.14% or 7.20 points to trade at 221.80 at the close. ACC Ltd (NSE:ACC) declined 2.21% or 32.40 points to end at 1434.50 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (NSE:ULTC) was down 2.15% or 61.80 points to 2806.25.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Coal India Limited (BO:COAL) which rose 4.44% to 405.60, Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which was up 3.42% to settle at 386.80 and NTPC Limited (BO:NTPC) which gained 2.52% to close at 140.15.
The worst performers were ICICI Bank Ltd. (BO:ICBK) which was down 2.18% to 284.50 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which lost 2.11% to settle at 442.60 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which was down 1.68% to 1197.25 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 759 to 660 and 11 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 364 fell and 361 advanced.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of S&P CNX Nifty options, was down 0.19% to 18.0875.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.06% or 0.70 to $1174.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.59% or 0.34 to hit $57.66 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.23% or 0.14 to trade at $61.88 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.25% to 63.800, while EUR/INR fell 0.23% to 71.7210.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.15% at 95.64.