Investing.com – India stocks were mixed after the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Durables, Auto and IT sectors led shares higher while losses in the Power, Capital Goods and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.01%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.14%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 3.73% or 7.15 points to trade at 199.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 3.40% or 15.20 points to end at 462.90 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) was up 2.99% or 39.75 points to 1370.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL), which fell 2.60% or 11.60 points to trade at 434.05 at the close. Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB) declined 1.93% or 6.30 points to end at 319.65 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was down 1.82% or 10.05 points to 541.20.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 3.81% to 198.65, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was up 3.28% to settle at 461.55 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which gained 2.49% to close at 1364.35.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.96% to 541.40 in late trade, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which lost 1.81% to settle at 178.85 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 1.59% to 532.75 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 813 to 778 and 17 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1396 rose and 1374 declined, while 147 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 9.34% to 13.0225 a new 1-month high.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.21% or 2.65 to $1271.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.61% or 0.34 to hit $55.98 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.68% or 0.42 to trade at $62.49 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 64.685, while EUR/INR rose 0.16% to 75.0731.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 94.82.