Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Capital Goods, Healthcare and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.24%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were ITC Ltd (NS:ITC), which rose 4.99% or 16.50 points to trade at 346.85 at the close. POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (NS:PGRD) added 2.31% or 3.35 points to end at 148.15 and Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NS:ABUJ) was up 1.80% or 3.75 points to 212.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included TATA STEEL LIMITED (NS:TISC), which lost 2.82% or 9.10 points to trade at 313.55 in late trade. Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) declined 2.64% or 39.75 points to end at 1465.05 and Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB) shed 2.41% or 3.25 points to 131.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which rose 5.29% to 347.40, Tata Power Co. Ltd (BO:TTPW) which was up 1.87% to settle at 70.70 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 0.99% to close at 346.25.
The worst performers were TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which was down 2.88% to 313.60 in late trade, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which lost 2.18% to settle at 208.30 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which was down 1.94% to 497.40 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 906 to 531 and 61 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 956 fell and 624 advanced, while 45 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.61% to 16.1600 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 0.19% or 2.40 to $1250.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.26% or 0.61 to hit $47.80 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.15% or 0.56 to trade at $48.16 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.06% to 67.468, while EUR/INR fell 0.09% to 75.6110.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.08% at 95.37.