Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Banking, Carbon and Auto sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.89%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 1.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which rose 5.06% or 20.90 points to trade at 434.65 at the close. Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) added 3.46% or 8.60 points to end at 258.45 and JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) was up 3.04% or 6.25 points to 211.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included State Bank Of India (NS:SBI), which lost 3.30% or 9.40 points to trade at 274.50 in late trade. Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB) declined 3.36% or 2.00 points to end at 57.40 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC) shed 2.63% or 57.45 points to 2128.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 5.31% to 434.65, Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was up 2.72% to settle at 135.80 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 2.63% to close at 123.05.
The worst performers were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 3.61% to 57.35 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 3.60% to settle at 274.65 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was down 2.69% to 2128.55 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1062 to 496 and 68 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1515 fell and 855 advanced, while 153 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.44% to 16.4250.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.12% or 1.80 to $1547.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.79% or 0.44 to hit $56.22 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.10% or 0.06 to trade at $59.99 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.01% to 71.800, while EUR/INR fell 0.03% to 79.5055.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 98.213.