Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Real Estate, Metals and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 1.01%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.73%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which rose 3.29% or 80.85 points to trade at 2536.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Wipro Ltd . (NS:WIPR) added 2.91% or 14.85 points to end at 525.40 and Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) was up 0.94% or 8.95 points to 961.75 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bosch Ltd (NS:BOSH), which fell 3.68% or 890.90 points to trade at 23264.25 at the close. Yes Bank Ltd. (NS:YESB) declined 3.68% or 53.50 points to end at 1401.15 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) was down 3.46% or 40.55 points to 1130.30.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Wipro Ltd. (BO:WIPR) which rose 3.47% to 523.60, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 3.38% to settle at 2534.10 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which gained 1.00% to close at 961.70.
The worst performers were Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which was down 2.55% to 438.20 in late trade, AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which lost 2.15% to settle at 491.85 and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (BO:REDY) which was down 1.96% to 2678.35 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1308 to 264 and 7 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2023 fell and 651 advanced, while 149 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 10.81% to 11.7850.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.36% or 4.58 to $1263.28 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.57% or 0.77 to hit $48.30 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.61% or 0.84 to trade at $51.37 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.89% to 64.850, while EUR/INR rose 0.84% to 72.1623.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 97.40.