Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the IT, Technology and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.16%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were ITC Ltd (NS:ITC), which rose 5.55% or 10.65 points to trade at 202.50 at the close. Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) added 2.86% or 71.20 points to end at 2565.00 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) was up 1.89% or 55.55 points to 2990.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN), which lost 3.13% or 54.70 points to trade at 1692.55 in late trade. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 2.34% or 3.55 points to end at 147.85 and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) shed 2.12% or 1.85 points to 85.25.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which rose 5.45% to 202.25, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was up 1.93% to settle at 2992.05 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which gained 1.67% to close at 1368.00.
The worst performers were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 3.09% to 1692.50 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 2.04% to settle at 699.60 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 1.90% to 548.70 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 922 to 687 and 52 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1444 rose and 1095 declined, while 106 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.51% to 29.7275.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.25% or 4.45 to $1770.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.42% or 0.54 to hit $37.47 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.94% or 0.38 to trade at $39.93 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.10% to 75.572, while EUR/INR fell 0.40% to 84.7620.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 97.385.