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 0.87%, while the index climbed 1.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:), which rose 8.84% or 104.30 points to trade at 1279.65 at the close. Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:) added 3.17% or 179.50 points to end at 5849.90 and Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:) was up 2.76% or 10.05 points to 373.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:), which lost 5.00% or 50.60 points to trade at 961.95 in late trade. GAIL Ltd (NS:) declined 3.94% or 13.75 points to end at 334.70 and Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:) shed 2.28% or 16.70 points to 716.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:) which rose 8.53% to 1282.25, Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (BO:) which was up 2.71% to settle at 373.75 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:) which gained 2.23% to close at 2779.75.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:) which was down 2.09% to 411.30 in late trade, Coal India Ltd (BO:) which lost 1.62% to settle at 236.80 and Yes Bank Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.31% to 166.10 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 909 to 674 and 57 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1417 fell and 1065 advanced, while 143 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.70% to 18.5900.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.22% or 2.70 to $1246.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.29% or 0.15 to hit $51.34 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.28% or 0.17 to trade at $60.23 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.28% to 70.745, while EUR/INR fell 0.25% to 80.4060.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 96.875.
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