Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Metals, Healthcare and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 1.00%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.98%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL), which rose 7.02% or 23.75 points to trade at 362.00 at the close. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) added 5.20% or 28.15 points to end at 569.40 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) was up 4.38% or 36.90 points to 880.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which lost 1.57% or 40.65 points to trade at 2554.45 in late trade. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) declined 0.73% or 51.70 points to end at 7004.00 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) shed 0.67% or 2.55 points to 379.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 5.16% to 568.90, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was up 3.46% to settle at 4851.75 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which gained 3.26% to close at 3149.90.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 0.74% to 80.20 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 0.63% to settle at 7009.95 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 0.47% to 850.45 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1109 to 499 and 98 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1693 rose and 975 declined, while 178 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 13.43% to 20.0225.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.35% or 6.30 to $1811.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.38% or 0.63 to hit $45.08 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.32% or 0.64 to trade at $47.89 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.12% to 73.859, while EUR/INR rose 0.09% to 87.9580.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 92.040.