Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Metals and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.77%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.79%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR), which rose 3.49% or 16.40 points to trade at 486.50 at the close. ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) added 3.45% or 19.30 points to end at 578.40 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) was up 3.19% or 28.50 points to 922.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Shree Cements Ltd. (NS:SHCM), which lost 2.77% or 811.55 points to trade at 28509.15 in late trade. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) declined 2.70% or 41.05 points to end at 1481.85 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) shed 1.88% or 45.15 points to 2352.30.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which rose 3.60% to 579.15, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was up 2.67% to settle at 2479.30 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which gained 2.30% to close at 3682.70.
The worst performers were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 2.75% to 1480.90 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 1.81% to settle at 2349.80 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.80% to 2509.55 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 980 to 653 and 80 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1693 rose and 1118 declined, while 157 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.68% to 23.0250.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.33% or 6.00 to $1787.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.70% or 0.43 to hit $60.92 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.81% or 0.53 to trade at $64.79 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.53% to 75.019, while EUR/INR fell 0.39% to 90.4060.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 91.032.