Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Metals, Capital Goods and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.44%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL), which rose 3.61% or 13.70 points to trade at 393.80 at the close. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) added 3.47% or 79.15 points to end at 2353.45 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 3.19% or 19.20 points to 619.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM), which lost 3.71% or 48.00 points to trade at 1245.40 in late trade. Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) declined 2.84% or 6.10 points to end at 208.80 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) shed 2.59% or 13.30 points to 500.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 2.98% to 619.60, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 1.51% to settle at 372.05 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which gained 1.17% to close at 1425.30.
The worst performers were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 3.62% to 1244.90 in late trade, Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which lost 3.05% to settle at 208.55 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was down 2.61% to 1890.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 986 to 616 and 53 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1506 fell and 1120 advanced, while 128 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.73% to 13.6450.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.06% or 0.70 to $1185.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.06% or 0.04 to hit $65.05 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.31% or 0.22 to trade at $70.98 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.01% to 70.266, while EUR/INR rose 0.73% to 79.9035.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 96.50.