Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the IT, Technology and Metals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.48%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM), which rose 6.37% or 128.30 points to trade at 2143.75 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 4.33% or 21.10 points to end at 508.00 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) was up 3.52% or 59.50 points to 1752.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN), which lost 5.29% or 167.60 points to trade at 3002.00 in late trade. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 3.74% or 19.20 points to end at 493.75 and Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) shed 2.88% or 77.90 points to 2622.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which rose 6.51% to 2145.65, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was up 1.70% to settle at 2842.90 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 1.52% to close at 756.85.
The worst performers were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 5.21% to 3003.50 in late trade, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which lost 2.85% to settle at 2623.00 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 2.59% to 1753.85 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 918 to 801 and 50 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1586 fell and 1529 advanced, while 128 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.52% to 18.0350.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.10% or 1.70 to $1786.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.67% or 0.56 to hit $82.86 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.10% or 0.94 to trade at $84.88 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.04% to 74.823, while EUR/INR fell 0.04% to 87.0860.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 93.653.