Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Power, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.50%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 2.30% or 10.10 points to trade at 449.55 at the close. Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD) added 2.29% or 5.20 points to end at 232.35 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) was up 2.22% or 110.00 points to 5,064.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA), which lost 1.86% or 118.10 points to trade at 6,246.35 in late trade. Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) declined 1.69% or 126.80 points to end at 7,367.15 and HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) shed 1.24% or 17.90 points to 1,422.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which rose 2.27% to 232.35, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was up 1.82% to settle at 1,686.40 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which gained 1.66% to close at 1,855.00.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 1.61% to 7,369.10 in late trade, Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which lost 1.34% to settle at 1,095.40 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 1.04% to 1,424.90 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1641 to 469 and 38 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2561 rose and 1076 declined, while 119 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.79% to 13.76.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.08% or 1.70 to $2,046.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.19% or 0.14 to hit $74.36 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.18% or 0.14 to trade at $79.84 a barrel.
USD/INR was unchanged 0.00% to 83.26, while EUR/INR rose 0.06% to 91.11.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 102.02.