Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate, IT and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.18% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.20%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY), which rose 2.30% or 24.25 points to trade at 1075.80 at the close. Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) added 1.98% or 23.85 points to end at 1228.65 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) was up 1.39% or 7.55 points to 551.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which lost 1.95% or 33.80 points to trade at 1700.30 in late trade. Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) declined 2.04% or 6.65 points to end at 321.10 and Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NS:ABUJ) shed 1.52% or 4.20 points to 271.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which rose 2.28% to 1075.60, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 1.66% to settle at 514.75 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which gained 0.99% to close at 1742.50.
The worst performers were Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which was down 1.53% to 321.05 in late trade, Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which lost 1.15% to settle at 611.00 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was down 0.82% to 309.45 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 859 to 740 and 36 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1562 rose and 1300 declined, while 124 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.16% to 14.0125.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.03% or 0.40 to $1319.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.64% or 0.41 to hit $63.98 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.40% or 0.28 to trade at $69.48 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.19% to 63.651, while EUR/INR rose 0.03% to 76.0502.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 92.17.