Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate, Metals and Auto sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.07%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB), which rose 4.64% or 6.90 points to trade at 155.75 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd . (NS:TAMO) added 4.52% or 21.60 points to end at 500.00 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (NS:TISC) was up 4.40% or 15.75 points to 373.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN), which lost 1.41% or 16.10 points to trade at 1127.30 in late trade. Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) declined 1.32% or 22.20 points to end at 1657.65 and Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) shed 1.21% or 13.10 points to 1071.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which rose 4.60% to 374.05, Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which was up 4.41% to settle at 500.30 and Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which gained 2.89% to close at 161.80.
The worst performers were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 1.18% to 1072.15 in late trade, Tata Power Co. Ltd (BO:TTPW) which lost 0.91% to settle at 70.85 and Coal India Limited (BO:COAL) which was down 0.75% to 323.75 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 804 to 676 and 49 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 851 rose and 741 declined, while 65 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 6.76% to 15.1400.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.40% or 5.45 to $1359.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.83% or 0.34 to hit $40.49 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.21% or 0.52 to trade at $42.58 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.23% to 66.945, while EUR/INR rose 0.12% to 74.5380.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.10% at 95.59.