Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Metals and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.44% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC), which rose 5.73% or 16.00 points to trade at 295.40 at the close. Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) added 4.12% or 81.40 points to end at 2055.70 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 2.64% or 16.55 points to 643.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which lost 2.87% or 83.15 points to trade at 2818.15 in late trade. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) declined 2.46% or 38.45 points to end at 1524.70 and NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) shed 2.35% or 2.35 points to 97.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which rose 4.07% to 2055.55, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 2.48% to settle at 642.60 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which gained 1.81% to close at 214.15.
The worst performers were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 2.45% to 1525.00 in late trade, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which lost 2.25% to settle at 97.55 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was down 1.43% to 1530.65 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 969 to 671 and 74 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1661 rose and 1223 declined, while 126 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.79% to 23.0450.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.01% or 0.10 to $1842.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.55% or 0.32 to hit $58.36 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.62% or 0.38 to trade at $61.09 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.07% to 72.840, while EUR/INR rose 0.17% to 88.3435.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 90.382.