Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, IT and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.44%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.44%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 31.37% or 53.15 points to trade at 221.25 at the close. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) added 6.57% or 26.80 points to end at 433.45 and Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) was up 6.65% or 41.15 points to 656.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which lost 3.61% or 11.90 points to trade at 315.65 in late trade. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) declined 3.85% or 5.00 points to end at 124.65 and Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) shed 3.10% or 6.15 points to 191.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 30.73% to 221.00, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was up 4.55% to settle at 83.95 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which gained 3.17% to close at 159.65.
The worst performers were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 3.09% to 301.05 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 2.01% to settle at 739.80 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.66% to 1399.45 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 804 to 764 and 69 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1316 fell and 1135 advanced, while 118 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.27% to 15.7725.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.48% or 6.35 to $1308.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.80% or 0.43 to hit $54.33 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.27% or 0.81 to trade at $64.42 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.29% to 71.071, while EUR/INR rose 0.41% to 80.1270.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 96.995.