Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Power, Capital Goods and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.76%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.73%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC), which rose 6.90% or 6.20 points to trade at 96.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) added 5.15% or 4.05 points to end at 82.65 and Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) was up 5.13% or 5.90 points to 121.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT), which fell 3.96% or 18.95 points to trade at 459.80 at the close. Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) declined 3.79% or 20.40 points to end at 518.25 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) was down 3.30% or 38.75 points to 1135.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which rose 6.79% to 96.00, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was up 4.80% to settle at 343.00 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which gained 4.22% to close at 990.00.
The worst performers were HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 4.05% to 459.25 in late trade, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which lost 3.66% to settle at 1130.35 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which was down 3.63% to 518.50 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1128 to 390 and 80 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1550 rose and 708 declined, while 135 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 7.32% to 46.0950 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.99% or 17.30 to $1757.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.66% or 0.33 to hit $20.20 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 3.00% or 0.83 to trade at $28.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.39% to 76.861, while EUR/INR rose 0.13% to 83.6090.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.39% at 99.877.