Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Banking, Real Estate and Carbon sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 1.29%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 1.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD), which rose 2.59% or 4.80 points to trade at 190.20 at the close. ITC Ltd (NS:ITC) added 2.17% or 4.00 points to end at 188.05 and NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) was up 1.70% or 1.50 points to 89.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included State Bank Of India (NS:SBI), which lost 4.96% or 12.50 points to trade at 239.50 in late trade. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) declined 4.76% or 6.10 points to end at 122.15 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) shed 4.19% or 20.85 points to 476.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which rose 2.78% to 190.50, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was up 2.15% to settle at 188.00 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 1.64% to close at 89.75.
The worst performers were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 4.88% to 239.75 in late trade, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which lost 4.11% to settle at 477.00 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 3.93% to 611.20 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 864 to 741 and 101 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1380 fell and 1286 advanced, while 173 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.35% to 19.5700.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.98% or 18.45 to $1855.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.59% or 0.67 to hit $41.34 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.04% or 0.46 to trade at $43.88 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.22% to 74.276, while EUR/INR rose 0.00% to 87.8390.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.39% at 92.668.