Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Power, Public Sector Undertakings and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.45%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which rose 0.98% or 34.30 points to trade at 3,543.85 at the close. Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) added 0.91% or 21.80 points to end at 2,416.25 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC) was up 0.51% or 13.90 points to 2,715.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which lost 2.46% or 2.80 points to trade at 111.10 in late trade. Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) declined 2.44% or 176.15 points to end at 7,030.00 and Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) shed 2.12% or 18.25 points to 841.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which rose 0.95% to 2,416.10, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 0.55% to settle at 843.30 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which gained 0.49% to close at 2,715.10.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 2.46% to 111.10 in late trade, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which lost 2.35% to settle at 7,033.80 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.98% to 3,249.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1339 to 603 and 54 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2110 fell and 1286 advanced, while 122 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.26% to 11.55.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.37% or 7.15 to $1,937.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.68% or 1.22 to hit $71.31 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.67% or 1.29 to trade at $75.83 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.04% to 81.97, while EUR/INR rose 0.20% to 90.20.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 101.61.