Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the , and sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the gained 0.62% to hit a new 1-month high, while the index gained 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:), which rose 9.10% or 27.70 points to trade at 332.75 at the close. HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:) added 3.36% or 33.25 points to end at 1022.20 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:) was up 3.55% or 850.75 points to 24735.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yes Bank Ltd (NS:), which lost 6.49% or 13.35 points to trade at 191.00 in late trade. Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:) declined 4.95% or 39.85 points to end at 766.20 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:) shed 2.50% or 14.75 points to 574.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:) which rose 9.81% to 333.60, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:) which was up 2.79% to settle at 1127.50 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:) which gained 1.81% to close at 2970.00.
The worst performers were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:) which was down 7.14% to 191.30 in late trade, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which lost 2.47% to settle at 574.10 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:) which was down 2.02% to 7332.05 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 941 to 635 and 70 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1473 fell and 1073 advanced, while 139 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.57% to 18.3500.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.39% or 16.70 to $1215.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 2.04% or 1.15 to hit $57.61 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 2.22% or 1.48 to trade at $68.10 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 71.855, while EUR/INR fell 0.13% to 81.3670.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 96.86.
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