Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the IT, Technology and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.39%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.49%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF), which rose 3.29% or 28.65 points to trade at 898.15 at the close. Meanwhile, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) added 3.28% or 13.25 points to end at 417.30 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was up 2.46% or 4.95 points to 206.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which fell 3.00% or 62.30 points to trade at 2014.50 at the close. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 2.52% or 5.45 points to end at 210.45 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was down 2.56% or 9.30 points to 354.30.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 2.49% to 206.10, Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which was up 2.13% to settle at 2637.70 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 1.60% to close at 355.50.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 3.17% to 2014.30 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 2.34% to settle at 1091.00 and Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which was down 2.05% to 268.15 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 974 to 596 and 69 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1397 fell and 1031 advanced, while 162 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.71% to 18.6500.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.03% or 0.35 to $1295.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.14% or 0.09 to hit $62.55 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.07% or 0.05 to trade at $69.36 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.93% to 69.037, while EUR/INR rose 0.91% to 77.5820.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 96.732.