Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Auto, Banking and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.04%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT), which rose 2.09% or 18.15 points to trade at 890.25 at the close. Meanwhile, Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) added 2.11% or 25.95 points to end at 1258.80 and Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) was up 2.01% or 5.20 points to 263.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM), which fell 3.64% or 28.02 points to trade at 742.20 at the close. Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) declined 0.84% or 14.90 points to end at 1748.05 and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL) was down 1.08% or 4.65 points to 426.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which rose 1.92% to 1253.80, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 1.84% to settle at 715.50 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which gained 1.45% to close at 3795.00.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 3.74% to 742.10 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 1.11% to settle at 9629.15 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 1.09% to 1346.50 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1007 to 569 and 37 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1671 rose and 983 declined, while 176 ended unchanged.
Shares in Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) fell to 5-year lows; losing 3.74% or 28.80 to 742.10.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.82% to 12.0850 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.05% or 0.60 to $1269.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.19% or 0.11 to hit $57.98 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.29% or 0.19 to trade at $64.37 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.16% to 64.080, while EUR/INR rose 0.01% to 76.1207.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 92.92.