Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Public Sector Undertakings, Capital Goods and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.42%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.32%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL), which rose 1.91% or 46.85 points to trade at 2,504.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 1.55% or 24.55 points to end at 1,610.55 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) was up 1.52% or 26.80 points to 1,789.60 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC), which fell 2.71% or 9.90 points to trade at 355.60 at the close. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) declined 2.35% or 56.40 points to end at 2,344.95 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) was down 2.01% or 93.70 points to 4,556.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 1.56% to 1,610.70, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was up 1.29% to settle at 997.65 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 1.22% to close at 1,781.90.
The worst performers were NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 2.59% to 356.10 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 2.36% to settle at 2,346.00 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 1.46% to 787.35 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1776 to 699 and 151 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2380 fell and 1447 advanced, while 102 ended unchanged.
Shares in Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) rose to all time highs; gaining 1.52% or 26.80 to 1,789.60.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.40% to 13.22 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.33% or 8.99 to $2,747.71 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.06% or 0.04 to hit $70.33 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $73.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.08% to 84.89, while EUR/INR rose 0.17% to 89.18.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 106.28.
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