Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Power, Oil & Gas and Capital Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.01% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT), which rose 2.29% or 88.10 points to trade at 3930.90 at the close. Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) added 2.07% or 17.30 points to end at 853.30 and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) was up 1.64% or 11.30 points to 698.85 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI), which lost 4.17% or 25.55 points to trade at 586.90 in late trade. JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) declined 1.73% or 11.85 points to end at 672.00 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) shed 1.53% or 102.85 points to 6608.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which rose 1.29% to 2230.65, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was up 1.18% to settle at 781.35 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which gained 1.13% to close at 1167.55.
The worst performers were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 4.18% to 586.85 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 1.59% to settle at 6609.05 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was down 1.34% to 173.20 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 857 to 828 and 52 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1634 rose and 1396 declined, while 121 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.30% to 13.5375.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.15% or 2.65 to $1788.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.85% or 0.58 to hit $67.78 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.72% or 0.51 to trade at $70.77 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.16% to 74.232, while EUR/INR rose 0.21% to 87.4115.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 92.875.