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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.60%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.57%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which rose 2.52% or 19.05 points to trade at 775.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) added 1.45% or 26.60 points to end at 1867.00 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) was up 1.12% or 9.35 points to 846.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN), which fell 3.09% or 218.65 points to trade at 6847.25 at the close. Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) declined 2.70% or 462.80 points to end at 16660.70 and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) was down 2.38% or 18.20 points to 745.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 2.59% to 775.55, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was up 1.48% to settle at 1867.75 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which gained 1.06% to close at 843.65.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 3.10% to 6849.80 in late trade, Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which lost 2.55% to settle at 16693.00 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 1.88% to 224.00 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1034 to 746 and 34 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1677 rose and 1560 declined, while 116 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.56% to 17.2175.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.19% or 3.35 to $1768.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.95% or 0.67 to hit $70.06 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.75% or 0.55 to trade at $73.15 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.33% to 76.290, while EUR/INR rose 0.40% to 85.9410.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 96.475.
