Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the IT, Banking and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.35%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC), which rose 4.13% or 3.40 points to trade at 85.70 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 3.07% or 4.00 points to end at 134.25 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) was up 2.86% or 12.00 points to 431.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM), which lost 3.03% or 96.35 points to trade at 3082.00 in late trade. IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) declined 2.99% or 18.80 points to end at 609.30 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) shed 1.62% or 6.80 points to 413.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which rose 4.07% to 85.65, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 2.97% to settle at 431.50 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which gained 2.22% to close at 3305.00.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 3.10% to 608.80 in late trade, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which lost 1.76% to settle at 412.95 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 1.39% to 1227.60 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 891 to 706 and 89 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1389 rose and 1163 declined, while 160 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.22% to 22.6350.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.48% or 9.35 to $1920.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.55% or 0.22 to hit $40.25 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.55% or 0.23 to trade at $41.96 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.09% to 73.654, while EUR/INR fell 0.09% to 87.1815.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 92.817.