Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Power, Banking and Green Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.65%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.74%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were ACC Ltd (NS:ACC), which rose 4.68% or 76.40 points to trade at 1708.20 at the close. UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) added 2.21% or 78.65 points to end at 3638.50 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) was up 1.62% or 18.15 points to 1136.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AXIS Bank Ltd. (NS:AXBK), which lost 3.62% or 20.20 points to trade at 538.05 in late trade. POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (NS:PGRD) declined 3.47% or 5.85 points to end at 162.50 and Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB) shed 3.36% or 5.30 points to 152.25.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Coal India Limited (BO:COAL) which rose 1.21% to 333.25, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 0.84% to settle at 366.90 and Wipro Ltd. (BO:WIPR) which gained 0.72% to close at 542.50.
The worst performers were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 3.62% to 538.25 in late trade, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BO:BHEL) which lost 3.05% to settle at 139.85 and Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was down 2.78% to 157.25 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 959 to 513 and 58 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1012 fell and 583 advanced, while 56 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.74% to 15.7125.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 0.06% or 0.75 to $1320.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.20% or 0.09 to hit $45.84 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.15% or 0.07 to trade at $47.24 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.06% to 67.203, while EUR/INR rose 0.07% to 74.0470.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.12% at 97.04.