Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Public Sector Undertakings, Oil & Gas and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.90%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.88%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 4.60% or 197.80 points to trade at 4500.00 at the close. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) added 3.69% or 18.20 points to end at 511.20 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) was up 2.49% or 6.90 points to 283.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which lost 7.93% or 36.00 points to trade at 417.80 in late trade. IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) declined 5.35% or 29.45 points to end at 521.05 and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) shed 4.00% or 3.70 points to 88.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 3.85% to 512.00, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 0.99% to settle at 6246.90 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which gained 0.75% to close at 961.00.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 5.62% to 519.85 in late trade, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which lost 3.64% to settle at 1811.00 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 3.41% to 425.80 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1031 to 563 and 80 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1506 fell and 984 advanced, while 150 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.55% to 24.7275.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.29% or 5.65 to $1947.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.60% or 0.66 to hit $40.61 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.32% or 0.58 to trade at $43.51 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.05% to 74.885, while EUR/INR fell 0.41% to 87.9750.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 93.525.