Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods, IT and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.06%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which rose 5.28% or 36.10 points to trade at 719.90 at the close. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) added 4.81% or 12.45 points to end at 271.50 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) was up 3.59% or 18.85 points to 544.15 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST), which lost 2.04% or 378.25 points to trade at 18137.00 in late trade. HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) declined 1.88% or 13.50 points to end at 705.55 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) shed 1.83% or 44.30 points to 2373.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 3.60% to 544.50, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was up 3.21% to settle at 952.00 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 2.37% to close at 670.00.
The worst performers were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 1.97% to 2369.50 in late trade, Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which lost 1.92% to settle at 1544.00 and Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was down 1.89% to 18160.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1073 to 587 and 60 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1891 rose and 1055 declined, while 144 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.81% to 20.6150.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.30% or 5.75 to $1914.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.61% or 0.31 to hit $50.94 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.26% or 0.14 to trade at $54.44 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.34% to 73.365, while EUR/INR fell 0.24% to 89.9020.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 89.868.