Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Healthcare and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.02% to hit a new 3-months low, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which rose 6.43% or 295.00 points to trade at 4,883.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) added 1.87% or 84.40 points to end at 4,604.00 and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) was up 1.31% or 8.95 points to 694.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL), which fell 3.07% or 75.75 points to trade at 2,389.20 at the close. Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) declined 2.91% or 27.75 points to end at 925.00 and Britannia Industries Ltd (NS:BRIT) was down 2.59% or 130.90 points to 4,915.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which rose 1.29% to 1,710.00, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was up 1.22% to settle at 1,267.55 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 0.78% to close at 1,689.10.
The worst performers were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 2.87% to 2,394.00 in late trade, Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which lost 2.12% to settle at 2,188.35 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 1.93% to 373.50 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1350 to 1104 and 161 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2067 rose and 1697 declined, while 91 ended unchanged.
Shares in Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) fell to 52-week lows; falling 2.12% or 47.30 to 2,188.35.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.16% to 14.79.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 1.33% or 34.45 to $2,552.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.01% or 0.01 to hit $68.42 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $72.30 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.06% to 84.48, while EUR/INR fell 0.47% to 88.76.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.53% at 106.94.