Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate, Consumer Durables and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.33% to hit a new all time high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (NS:APSE), which rose 6.23% or 20.00 points to trade at 341.00 at the close. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) added 2.65% or 663.90 points to end at 25720.00 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) was up 2.32% or 8.65 points to 382.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Idea Cellular Ltd (NS:IDEA), which lost 1.80% or 1.60 points to trade at 87.30 in late trade. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (NS:BHEL) declined 1.64% or 2.75 points to end at 165.10 and Coal India Limited (NS:COAL) shed 1.53% or 4.50 points to 289.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (BO:APSE) which rose 5.77% to 338.85, HDFC Bank Ltd. (BO:HDBK) which was up 2.51% to settle at 1463.75 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 1.67% to close at 350.65.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 1.34% to 184.45 in late trade, Coal India Limited (BO:COAL) which lost 1.33% to settle at 290.15 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which was down 1.08% to 478.15 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 968 to 520 and 68 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1692 rose and 956 declined, while 223 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.52% to 12.1500.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.31% or 3.90 to $1249.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.26% or 0.13 to hit $49.38 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.49% or 0.26 to trade at $52.28 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.23% to 64.936, while EUR/INR fell 0.17% to 69.7210.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 99.99.