Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.38% to hit a new 1-month high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI), which rose 2.96% or 11.95 points to trade at 414.70 at the close. State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) added 2.22% or 6.10 points to end at 281.00 and Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) was up 2.10% or 22.30 points to 1083.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA), which lost 1.54% or 42.65 points to trade at 2728.60 in late trade. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 0.82% or 230.80 points to end at 27689.10 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) shed 1.41% or 18.20 points to 1272.40.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 2.15% to 280.90, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was up 1.72% to settle at 336.75 and Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which gained 1.52% to close at 251.25.
The worst performers were Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was down 1.52% to 2729.60 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 1.30% to settle at 1367.00 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.04% to 544.90 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 878 to 686 and 8 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1492 rose and 1148 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 1.52% to 10.9825.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.16% or 1.97 to $1223.67 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.57% or 0.71 to hit $45.84 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.51% or 0.72 to trade at $48.51 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.00% to 64.793, while EUR/INR rose 0.13% to 73.6602.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 95.84.