Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Public Sector Undertakings and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.42%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.26%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (NS:ARBN), which rose 6.94% or 41.80 points to trade at 643.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) added 1.95% or 26.45 points to end at 1383.95 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) was up 1.85% or 4.75 points to 260.85 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (NS:IOC), which fell 3.24% or 13.65 points to trade at 407.05 at the close. Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) declined 3.12% or 21.60 points to end at 670.40 and Bharti Infratel Limited (NS:BHRI) was down 2.93% or 11.30 points to 374.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which rose 2.11% to 1384.50, Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which was up 1.86% to settle at 260.80 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which gained 1.74% to close at 549.15.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 2.42% to 2411.10 in late trade, Larsen & Toubro Limited (BO:LART) which lost 1.46% to settle at 1735.80 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 1.18% to 167.50 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 790 to 768 and 7 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1331 rose and 1249 declined, while 159 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.30% to 11.3250.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 1.13% or 14.47 to $1261.43 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.16% or 0.07 to hit $44.66 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.06% or 0.03 to trade at $47.03 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.39% to 64.425, while EUR/INR fell 0.14% to 71.9530.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.36% at 97.26.