Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the lost 0.09%, while the index fell 0.13%.
The best performers of the session on the were Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:), which rose 2.58% or 70.90 points to trade at 2,813.90 at the close. Meanwhile, NTPC Ltd (NS:) added 2.48% or 9.05 points to end at 373.70 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:) was up 2.41% or 271.50 points to 11,529.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Wipro Ltd (NS:), which fell 9.31% or 51.85 points to trade at 505.35 at the close. Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:) declined 3.39% or 105.50 points to end at 3,004.80 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:) was down 3.25% or 59.25 points to 1,762.35.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were NTPC Ltd (BO:) which rose 2.58% to 373.90, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:) which was up 2.34% to settle at 11,532.00 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:) which gained 2.15% to close at 1,641.60.
The worst performers were Wipro Ltd (BO:) which was down 9.28% to 505.55 in late trade, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:) which lost 3.46% to settle at 3,002.00 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:) which was down 3.30% to 1,761.70 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1315 to 974 and 29 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2099 rose and 1755 declined, while 132 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 4.13% to 15.44 a new 1-month high.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.37% or 8.95 to $2,408.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.31% or 0.24 to hit $78.40 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.27% or 0.22 to trade at $82.41 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.08% to 83.66, while EUR/INR fell 0.04% to 91.10.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 103.96.
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