Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.31%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 1.34% or 2.45 points to trade at 185.75 at the close. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) added 1.58% or 15.05 points to end at 966.70 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 1.18% or 238.95 points to 20556.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL), which lost 2.76% or 6.60 points to trade at 232.90 in late trade. IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) declined 2.42% or 38.75 points to end at 1565.90 and Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) shed 1.84% or 5.35 points to 285.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 1.34% to 185.55, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was up 1.13% to settle at 98.05 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 1.13% to close at 147.80.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 2.36% to 1563.00 in late trade, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which lost 1.42% to settle at 1221.35 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 1.37% to 143.55 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 815 to 753 and 74 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1325 fell and 1184 advanced, while 150 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.49% to 15.3450.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.09% or 1.15 to $1293.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.55% or 0.29 to hit $52.07 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.52% or 0.32 to trade at $61.12 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.06% to 70.555, while EUR/INR fell 0.17% to 81.2825.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 94.938.