Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Capital Goods, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Metals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 1.10%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 1.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 1.09% or 10.15 points to trade at 943.25 at the close. Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) added 1.06% or 17.30 points to end at 1655.45 and POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (NS:PGRD) was up 0.94% or 1.35 points to 144.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (NS:APSE), which lost 6.36% or 11.65 points to trade at 171.55 in late trade. Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) declined 4.33% or 4.30 points to end at 94.95 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) shed 4.03% or 7.25 points to 172.70.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which rose 0.70% to 387.70, Wipro Ltd. (BO:WIPR) which was up 0.70% to settle at 542.70 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which gained 0.32% to close at 3926.85.
The worst performers were Vedanta Ltd (BO:VDAN) which was down 4.28% to 95.00 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 4.05% to settle at 172.90 and Larsen & Toubro Limited (BO:LART) which was down 3.24% to 1267.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1008 to 409 and 64 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1082 fell and 482 advanced, while 51 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.69% to 17.0625.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 1.55% or 19.75 to $1254.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.83% or 0.88 to hit $47.31 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 2.23% or 1.09 to trade at $47.84 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.34% to 67.371, while EUR/INR rose 0.22% to 75.4750.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 95.27.