Investing.com – India stocks were mixed after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Metals and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares higher while losses in the Real Estate, Banking and IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.03%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.22%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 8.08% or 8.85 points to trade at 118.05 at the close. Meanwhile, Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) added 7.30% or 13.30 points to end at 194.85 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) was up 5.29% or 6.30 points to 125.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC), which fell 2.81% or 59.10 points to trade at 2044.15 at the close. Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) declined 2.25% or 10.30 points to end at 447.95 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) was down 2.24% or 8.90 points to 389.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 7.81% to 118.05, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was up 6.71% to settle at 53.30 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which gained 5.17% to close at 125.20.
The worst performers were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which was down 2.67% to 2043.70 in late trade, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which lost 2.16% to settle at 388.90 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.35% to 2215.80 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1000 to 554 and 69 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1396 rose and 944 declined, while 139 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.22% to 17.2725.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.68% or 10.55 to $1549.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.18% or 0.10 to hit $56.16 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.12% or 0.07 to trade at $60.77 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.14% to 71.865, while EUR/INR rose 0.05% to 79.4465.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 98.155.