Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, IT and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.05%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM), which rose 4.52% or 154.40 points to trade at 3,568.00 at the close. Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA) added 3.14% or 180.45 points to end at 5,932.00 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 2.30% or 9.25 points to 411.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which lost 7.59% or 96.55 points to trade at 1,174.95 in late trade. UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) declined 1.77% or 155.35 points to end at 8,604.55 and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) shed 1.54% or 22.00 points to 1,408.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 1.16% to 1,487.65, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 0.96% to settle at 978.65 and Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which gained 0.67% to close at 402.90.
The worst performers were UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was down 1.67% to 8,614.00 in late trade, LTIMindtree Ltd (BO:LTIM) which lost 1.52% to settle at 5,469.50 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was down 0.92% to 3,053.55 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1134 to 936 and 61 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1984 rose and 1596 declined, while 132 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.64% to 11.31.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.05% or 1.05 to $1,993.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.02% or 0.79 to hit $76.31 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.06% or 0.87 to trade at $81.09 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.07% to 83.34, while EUR/INR rose 0.35% to 90.99.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 103.54.