Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Public Sector Undertakings, Power and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.19%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI), which rose 2.96% or 10.65 points to trade at 372.35 at the close. Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) added 3.07% or 42.70 points to end at 1436.45 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 2.89% or 593.75 points to 21032.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI), which lost 7.89% or 20.45 points to trade at 237.55 in late trade. Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB) declined 5.37% or 2.75 points to end at 48.30 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) shed 6.12% or 45.45 points to 705.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 3.31% to 372.45, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was up 3.12% to settle at 1436.25 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which gained 2.09% to close at 1118.55.
The worst performers were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 5.76% to 48.30 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 4.65% to settle at 262.70 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 3.78% to 1282.20 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 893 to 661 and 71 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1318 fell and 1036 advanced, while 149 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.78% to 16.2400.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.24% or 3.55 to $1492.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.54% or 0.30 to hit $55.67 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.29% or 0.18 to trade at $60.99 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.42% to 71.015, while EUR/INR rose 0.39% to 79.0115.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 97.287.