Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Public Sector Undertakings, Power and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.19%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 4.61% or 28.00 points to trade at 635.35 at the close. Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD) added 3.83% or 11.55 points to end at 313.40 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) was up 3.20% or 92.10 points to 2,968.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM), which lost 2.83% or 45.95 points to trade at 1,578.00 in late trade. Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) declined 1.46% or 16.15 points to end at 1,092.20 and Axis Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) shed 1.36% or 15.90 points to 1,150.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which rose 3.76% to 313.00, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was up 3.16% to settle at 2,968.00 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 1.67% to close at 167.70.
The worst performers were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 2.78% to 1,578.65 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 1.38% to settle at 1,304.60 and Axis Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 1.26% to 1,151.45 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1122 to 1077 and 52 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1870 fell and 1824 advanced, while 115 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 4.47% to 13.44.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.26% or 6.10 to $2,304.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.63% or 0.50 to hit $79.50 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.73% or 0.61 to trade at $84.05 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.06% to 83.46, while EUR/INR rose 0.28% to 89.31.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 105.67.