Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.05%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART), which rose 2.69% or 35.40 points to trade at 1352.40 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) added 1.96% or 12.90 points to end at 671.80 and AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) was up 1.89% or 13.65 points to 733.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL), which lost 3.42% or 8.30 points to trade at 235.00 in late trade. Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) declined 3.05% or 8.45 points to end at 268.85 and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) shed 3.45% or 5.35 points to 150.20.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which rose 2.76% to 1351.25, AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was up 1.77% to settle at 732.20 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which gained 1.71% to close at 670.85.
The worst performers were Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which was down 3.09% to 235.15 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 1.97% to settle at 450.90 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 1.68% to 146.10 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 832 to 754 and 59 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1308 fell and 1258 advanced, while 152 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.03% to 15.2925 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.06% or 0.75 to $1286.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.78% or 0.44 to hit $56.66 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.09% or 0.72 to trade at $66.71 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.07% to 70.044, while EUR/INR rose 0.06% to 79.2585.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 96.812.