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 declined 0.39%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.49%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which rose 3.29% or 28.65 points to trade at 898.15 at the close. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) added 3.28% or 13.25 points to end at 417.30 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was up 2.46% or 4.95 points to 206.15 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which lost 3.00% or 62.30 points to trade at 2014.50 in late trade. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 2.52% or 5.45 points to end at 210.45 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) shed 2.56% or 9.30 points to 354.30.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 2.49% to 206.10, Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which was up 2.13% to settle at 2637.70 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 1.60% to close at 355.50.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 3.17% to 2014.30 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 2.34% to settle at 1091.00 and Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 2.05% to 268.15 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 974 to 596 and 69 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1397 fell and 1031 advanced, while 162 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.71% to 18.6500.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.03% or 0.35 to $1295.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.14% or 0.09 to hit $62.55 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.07% or 0.05 to trade at $69.36 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.92% to 69.030, while EUR/INR rose 0.92% to 77.5885.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 96.727.