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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.04%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN), which rose 3.72% or 90.00 points to trade at 2506.85 at the close. Meanwhile, SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) added 3.45% or 29.60 points to end at 888.70 and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) was up 3.05% or 20.85 points to 704.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC), which fell 6.15% or 6.40 points to trade at 97.70 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) declined 3.60% or 33.40 points to end at 895.00 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was down 3.24% or 10.90 points to 325.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which rose 3.66% to 2506.00, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was up 1.40% to settle at 101.10 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which gained 1.31% to close at 1561.25.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 3.04% to 900.00 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 1.99% to settle at 622.00 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 1.76% to 229.00 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1000 to 658 and 55 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1617 fell and 1248 advanced, while 179 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.30% to 24.2700.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.64% or 11.70 to $1845.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.31% or 0.18 to hit $58.15 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.16% or 0.10 to trade at $60.80 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.06% to 72.888, while EUR/INR rose 0.45% to 88.2630.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.43% at 90.550.
