Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Real Estate, Power and Healthcare sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.23%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.21%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 2.73% or 5.00 points to trade at 188.25 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 2.00% or 8.05 points to end at 412.10 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) was up 1.33% or 8.70 points to 663.60 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which fell 3.47% or 71.65 points to trade at 1989.60 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) declined 2.47% or 8.45 points to end at 333.60 and Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) was down 2.54% or 31.35 points to 1208.65.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which rose 2.87% to 188.15, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 1.92% to settle at 410.35 and Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which gained 0.71% to close at 198.25.
The worst performers were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was down 3.70% to 1988.30 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which lost 2.34% to settle at 333.35 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.85% to 496.95 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1243 to 369 and 32 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1843 fell and 744 advanced, while 111 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.07% to 14.4250.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.30% or 3.90 to $1316.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.62% or 0.44 to hit $71.58 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.30% or 0.23 to trade at $77.44 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.10% to 67.265, while EUR/INR rose 0.20% to 79.9710.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 92.69.