Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Capital Goods and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 1.48%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 1.38%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL), which rose 2.96% or 7.80 points to trade at 269.15 at the close. Meanwhile, Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) added 1.76% or 22.00 points to end at 1269.45 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) was up 1.50% or 41.20 points to 2788.75 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL), which fell 11.49% or 41.15 points to trade at 316.30 at the close. Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) declined 7.73% or 61.55 points to end at 735.80 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) was down 6.84% or 112.00 points to 1522.65.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Coal India Ltd (BO:COAL) which rose 1.92% to 268.30, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was up 1.27% to settle at 195.55 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which gained 1.13% to close at 1836.55.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 6.97% to 1522.05 in late trade, Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which lost 6.15% to settle at 143.35 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 4.34% to 337.05 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1219 to 374 and 63 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1776 fell and 725 advanced, while 129 ended unchanged.
Shares in Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) rose to all time highs; gaining 1.76% or 22.00 to 1269.45.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.66% to 15.5250 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.56% or 7.45 to $1341.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.46% or 0.24 to hit $51.92 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 1.01% or 0.61 to trade at $61.24 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.20% to 69.249, while EUR/INR fell 0.01% to 77.8160.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 97.195.