India stocks lower at close of trade; Nifty 50 down 0.62% By Investing.com

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 0.62%, while the index fell 0.66%.

The best performers of the session on the were Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:), which rose 2.00% or 95.75 points to trade at 4,871.45 at the close. Meanwhile, Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:) added 1.13% or 12.50 points to end at 1,114.00 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:) was up 1.13% or 1.25 points to 112.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:), which fell 3.07% or 105.60 points to trade at 3,331.85 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:) declined 2.23% or 28.85 points to end at 1,264.60 and Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:) was down 2.17% or 17.65 points to 795.55.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which rose 1.22% to 112.05, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:) which was up 1.18% to settle at 4,525.00 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:) which gained 1.16% to close at 1,114.55.

The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:) which was down 2.08% to 1,266.50 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:) which lost 1.78% to settle at 2,615.30 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:) which was down 1.58% to 8,815.10 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1136 to 767 and 50 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1981 rose and 1381 declined, while 129 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.67% to 13.45.

Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.02% or 0.35 to $1,814.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.07% or 0.06 to hit $81.28 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.12% or 0.10 to trade at $86.98 a barrel.

USD/INR was up 0.27% to 81.34, while EUR/INR rose 0.29% to 85.60.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 104.53.