Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate, Capital Goods and IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.44% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT), which rose 5.08% or 50.30 points to trade at 1039.75 at the close. Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) added 4.19% or 64.65 points to end at 1609.35 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) was up 3.15% or 33.95 points to 1112.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which lost 3.23% or 3.90 points to trade at 116.90 in late trade. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 1.30% or 35.10 points to end at 2664.90 and Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) shed 0.98% or 1.45 points to 146.70.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which rose 5.10% to 1040.00, Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was up 4.19% to settle at 1609.05 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 3.13% to close at 1112.15.
The worst performers were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 0.84% to 525.55 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 0.83% to settle at 779.90 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 0.64% to 2982.75 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 940 to 746 and 50 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1567 rose and 1521 declined, while 108 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.54% to 12.2700.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.12% or 2.15 to $1827.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.53% or 1.12 to hit $72.01 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.32% or 0.99 to trade at $73.77 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.07% to 74.508, while EUR/INR fell 0.01% to 88.1105.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.00% at 92.403.