Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Banking, Healthcare and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.10%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN), which rose 2.76% or 19.35 points to trade at 720.35 at the close. Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) added 1.90% or 3.20 points to end at 171.75 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC) was up 1.86% or 44.05 points to 2407.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC), which lost 1.85% or 132.95 points to trade at 7045.95 in late trade. AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) declined 1.79% or 14.25 points to end at 782.80 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) shed 1.79% or 13.70 points to 750.35.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which rose 1.71% to 2410.60, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was up 1.35% to settle at 2444.90 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which gained 0.84% to close at 2307.70.
The worst performers were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was down 2.00% to 750.05 in late trade, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which lost 1.90% to settle at 7048.20 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 1.79% to 782.85 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1218 to 592 and 26 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2004 fell and 1264 advanced, while 98 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 6.86% to 22.0050.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.88% or 16.50 to $1888.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 2.22% or 2.08 to hit $91.58 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 2.06% or 1.95 to trade at $92.86 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.11% to 75.036, while EUR/INR fell 0.02% to 85.3065.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 95.800.