Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Durables, Capital Goods and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.50%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.42%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which rose 5.41% or 39.70 points to trade at 775.70 at the close. Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) added 3.75% or 30.85 points to end at 847.30 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) was up 3.18% or 190.45 points to 6159.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which lost 6.32% or 11.80 points to trade at 174.70 in late trade. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) declined 2.19% or 9.45 points to end at 422.10 and UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL) shed 2.16% or 17.05 points to 773.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which rose 2.64% to 338.75, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was up 2.62% to settle at 696.50 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which gained 2.56% to close at 1268.00.
The worst performers were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 6.48% to 174.70 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 2.12% to settle at 422.15 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.74% to 1983.65 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 964 to 607 and 68 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1428 rose and 1041 declined, while 125 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.64% to 15.5500 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.15% or 1.90 to $1248.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.43% or 0.22 to hit $50.93 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.43% or 0.26 to trade at $59.89 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.33% to 71.615, while EUR/INR fell 0.23% to 81.4860.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 96.990.