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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 2.66%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 2.62%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which rose 2.84% or 24.65 points to trade at 892.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) added 0.82% or 1.35 points to end at 165.00 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) was down 0.33% or 2.85 points to 851.25 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL), which fell 6.67% or 44.45 points to trade at 621.80 at the close. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) declined 6.03% or 70.50 points to end at 1099.20 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) was down 5.99% or 442.00 points to 6931.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which fell 0.48% to 849.85, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was down 0.49% to settle at 213.90 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 0.78% to close at 689.60.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 5.98% to 1099.15 in late trade, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which lost 5.97% to settle at 6932.75 and Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which was down 5.35% to 572.85 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1750 to 121 and 18 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2983 fell and 503 advanced, while 121 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 20.85% to 22.8250 a new 6-months high.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.35% or 6.35 to $1838.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.23% or 0.20 to hit $84.94 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.11% or 0.10 to trade at $86.98 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.26% to 74.613, while EUR/INR fell 0.01% to 84.3415.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 95.968.
