Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Healthcare, Real Estate and Auto sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.74% to hit a new 3-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.71%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which rose 4.87% or 969.45 points to trade at 20860.00 at the close. Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) added 3.59% or 72.00 points to end at 2076.00 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) was up 3.59% or 13.70 points to 394.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK), which lost 3.77% or 18.05 points to trade at 460.90 in late trade. Shree Cements Ltd. (NS:SHCM) declined 1.91% or 419.45 points to end at 21560.00 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) shed 1.43% or 32.10 points to 2216.40.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which rose 3.52% to 394.50, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 3.28% to settle at 198.30 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which gained 2.82% to close at 2060.65.
The worst performers were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 3.80% to 460.85 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 1.36% to settle at 2217.55 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 0.97% to 910.50 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 889 to 701 and 76 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1368 rose and 1138 declined, while 137 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.98% to 24.6400.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.89% or 16.55 to $1881.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.14% or 0.06 to hit $41.84 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.20% or 0.09 to trade at $44.20 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.26% to 74.791, while EUR/INR rose 0.44% to 86.6755.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 94.817.