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 declined 0.17%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 3.76% or 95.60 points to trade at 2636.25 at the close. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) added 3.38% or 17.30 points to end at 528.85 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (NS:HDFC) was up 2.14% or 34.20 points to 1633.55 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which lost 3.58% or 93.65 points to trade at 2521.60 in late trade. GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) declined 3.48% or 14.00 points to end at 388.60 and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (NS:IOC) shed 2.01% or 8.60 points to 418.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which rose 3.79% to 2637.25, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 3.38% to settle at 528.45 and Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which gained 2.28% to close at 1634.05.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 3.59% to 2521.50 in late trade, Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which lost 3.44% to settle at 388.70 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 1.61% to 1143.60 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 788 to 764 and 11 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1311 fell and 1287 advanced, while 169 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.63% to 11.0675.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.44% or 5.66 to $1287.54 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.74% or 0.34 to hit $46.06 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.81% or 0.39 to trade at $48.45 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.15% to 64.320, while EUR/INR fell 0.36% to 72.2670.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 96.86.