Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Auto, Oil & Gas and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.48%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which rose 3.64% or 15.70 points to trade at 449.40 at the close. UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) added 2.47% or 96.60 points to end at 4002.05 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) was up 2.03% or 8.00 points to 402.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which lost 4.68% or 3.35 points to trade at 67.95 in late trade. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) declined 3.80% or 5.10 points to end at 127.95 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) shed 3.01% or 198.55 points to 6392.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which rose 2.13% to 402.75, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 1.34% to settle at 427.70 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which gained 1.26% to close at 1389.05.
The worst performers were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 5.10% to 67.95 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which lost 4.87% to settle at 58.60 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 4.76% to 127.95 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 852 to 727 and 55 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1306 rose and 1071 declined, while 159 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.07% to 14.9000 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.46% or 6.85 to $1510.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.86% or 0.48 to hit $55.27 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 1.13% or 0.69 to trade at $60.12 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.42% to 71.250, while EUR/INR fell 0.28% to 78.5460.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 98.553.