Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Power, Technology and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.26%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 2.50% or 135.45 points to trade at 5558.50 at the close. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) added 1.98% or 7.35 points to end at 379.40 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA) was up 1.71% or 70.70 points to 4204.55 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS), which lost 2.42% or 292.60 points to trade at 11816.45 in late trade. Shree Cements Ltd. (NS:SHCM) declined 1.62% or 444.65 points to end at 27059.95 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) shed 1.48% or 53.85 points to 3595.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which rose 2.56% to 5559.15, Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was up 1.84% to settle at 4209.00 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 1.37% to close at 684.75.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which was down 2.20% to 11850.00 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 1.32% to settle at 1560.45 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was down 1.02% to 6707.65 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 859 to 811 and 56 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1570 rose and 1496 declined, while 116 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.57% to 12.8400 a new 52-week low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.18% or 3.25 to $1774.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.92% or 1.41 to hit $74.88 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.69% or 1.26 to trade at $75.88 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.27% to 74.561, while EUR/INR rose 0.27% to 88.3955.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 92.493.