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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.62%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.66%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:APLH), which rose 2.00% or 95.75 points to trade at 4,871.45 at the close. Meanwhile, Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) added 1.13% or 12.50 points to end at 1,114.00 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) 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:EICH), which fell 3.07% or 105.60 points to trade at 3,331.85 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) declined 2.23% or 28.85 points to end at 1,264.60 and Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) was down 2.17% or 17.65 points to 795.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 1.22% to 112.05, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was up 1.18% to settle at 4,525.00 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 1.16% to close at 1,114.55.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 2.08% to 1,266.50 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 1.78% to settle at 2,615.30 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) 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 India VIX, 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.
