Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Real Estate, Metals and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.37%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 6.38% or 17.55 points to trade at 292.45 at the close. Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) added 2.66% or 132.35 points to end at 5114.30 and Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) was up 2.55% or 52.30 points to 2107.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which lost 3.34% or 3.30 points to trade at 95.55 in late trade. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) declined 2.95% or 20.35 points to end at 669.80 and Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) shed 2.61% or 3.70 points to 137.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which rose 2.72% to 5116.65, Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was up 2.71% to settle at 3735.90 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which gained 2.53% to close at 2106.80.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 4.00% to 94.90 in late trade, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which lost 2.19% to settle at 96.15 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.95% to 582.85 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1155 to 515 and 42 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1820 fell and 1061 advanced, while 158 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.92% to 22.1800.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.18% or 3.30 to $1869.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.77% or 0.41 to hit $52.90 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.82% or 0.46 to trade at $55.62 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.11% to 72.990, while EUR/INR rose 0.39% to 88.5955.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 90.215.