Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Public Sector Undertakings and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.48% to hit a new 1-month low, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI), which rose 2.08% or 203.60 points to trade at 10,000.00 at the close. Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) added 1.74% or 21.45 points to end at 1,257.60 and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) was up 1.21% or 7.70 points to 644.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL), which lost 3.73% or 93.85 points to trade at 2,419.25 in late trade. Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) declined 3.24% or 11.40 points to end at 340.55 and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) shed 3.24% or 26.50 points to 792.20.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which rose 2.22% to 9,981.05, Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was up 1.09% to settle at 3,112.00 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which gained 1.02% to close at 8,345.00.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 1.34% to 7,165.20 in late trade, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which lost 1.33% to settle at 3,250.65 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 1.20% to 1,376.75 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1009 to 999 and 63 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1790 rose and 1695 declined, while 144 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.22% to 12.06.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.09% or 1.70 to $1,971.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.60% or 0.49 to hit $82.12 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.53% or 0.45 to trade at $85.69 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.12% to 82.75, while EUR/INR fell 0.40% to 89.99.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 103.43.