Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the , and sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close, the NSE was down 0.64%, while the index was down 0.63%.
The best performers of the session were Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS: ), which rose 7.57% or 182.40 points to trade at 2,592.35 at the close. Meanwhile, HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:) added 1.95% or 36.95 points to end at 1,928.95 and Technical Mahindra Ltd (NS: ) was up 1.71% or 29.20 points to trade at 1,740.85 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS: ), which fell 2.64% or 16.30 points to 601.10 at the close. Bharat Electronics Ltd (NS:) lost 2.45% or 7.15 points to end at 284.90 and Trent Ltd (NS:) lost 2.30% or 163.95 points to 6,954.35.
Top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were HCL Technologies Ltd ( BO: ) which rose 1.30% to 1916.20, Tech Mahindra Ltd ( BO: ) which rose 1.16% to 1731.70 and IndusInd Bank Ltd . (BO:) which gained 0.77% to close at 960.85.
The worst performers were Tata Motors Ltd ( BO: ) which fell 1.94% to 736.00 in late trade, JSW Steel Ltd ( BO: ) which lost 1.65% to 898.00 and Titan Company Ltd ( BO 🙂 which fell 1.57% to 3,258.40 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered advancing stocks on the National Stock Exchange of India for 1776 at 762, with 147 ending unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2,495 declined and 1,433 rose, while 143 ended unchanged.
which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, rose 5.53% to 13.97.
Gold futures for February delivery fell 0.26%, or 6.81, to $2,625.09 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.21% or 0.15 to $70.45 a barrel, while the March Brent contract fell 0.22% or 0.16 to 73.63 dollars per barrel.
USD/INR rose 0.15% to 85.52, while EUR/INR fell 0.06% to 89.26.
US dollar index futures fell 0.09% to 107.70.
