Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Real Estate, Banking and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.94%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 1.89%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which rose 2.93% or 33.45 points to trade at 1176.00 at the close. Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) added 1.82% or 32.45 points to end at 1817.00 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) was up 1.26% or 92.45 points to 7446.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE), which lost 7.74% or 57.75 points to trade at 688.10 in late trade. ITC Ltd (NS:ITC) declined 5.60% or 13.35 points to end at 225.10 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) shed 4.43% or 7.00 points to 150.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 2.94% to 1175.45, Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was up 1.92% to settle at 1817.00 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which gained 1.11% to close at 7441.95.
The worst performers were ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 5.54% to 225.20 in late trade, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which lost 4.39% to settle at 798.65 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 4.05% to 2098.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1411 to 348 and 35 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2184 fell and 916 advanced, while 112 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 6.45% to 17.9125.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.07% or 1.25 to $1800.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.97% or 1.63 to hit $81.03 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.78% or 1.49 to trade at $82.38 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.23% to 74.891, while EUR/INR fell 0.27% to 86.8655.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 93.847.