India stocks lower at close of trade; Nifty 50 down 0.04%

Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in NSE, the fell 0.04%, while the index declined 0.07%.

The best performers of the session on the were Cipla Ltd. (NS:), which rose 2.39% or 28.00 points to trade at 1,198.65 at the close. Meanwhile, Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:) added 2.31% or 50.20 points to end at 2,225.45 and Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. (NS:) was up 1.94% or 71.50 points to 3,760.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Wipro Ltd (NS:), which fell 1.61% or 6.50 points to trade at 396.00 at the close. Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:) declined 1.55% or 85.25 points to end at 5,408.70 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:) was down 1.55% or 54.25 points to 3,454.00.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:) which rose 0.91% to 1,008.15, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:) which was up 0.68% to settle at 1,532.05 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:) which gained 0.66% to close at 929.15.

The worst performers were HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.55% to 1,308.50 in late trade, Wipro Ltd (BO:) which lost 1.54% to settle at 395.95 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:) which was down 1.46% to 3,457.60 at the close.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1124 to 949 and 56 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1804 fell and 1746 advanced, while 132 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.13% to 11.33.

Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.17% or 3.30 to $1,996.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.56% or 0.43 to hit $76.67 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.21% or 0.17 to trade at $81.59 a barrel.

USD/INR was up 0.02% to 83.37, while EUR/INR rose 0.05% to 90.95.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 103.61.