Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the declined 0.03%, while the index declined 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:), which rose 2.21% or 6.60 points to trade at 304.75 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:) added 2.08% or 6.25 points to end at 306.60 and Coal India Ltd (NS:) was up 1.90% or 9.30 points to 500.05 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:), which fell 1.79% or 20.55 points to trade at 1,130.25 at the close. Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:) declined 1.48% or 104.65 points to end at 6,950.30 and Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. (NS:) was down 1.42% or 66.05 points to 4,570.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ITC Ltd (BO:) which rose 1.60% to 458.50, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:) which was up 1.50% to settle at 1,020.50 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:) which gained 1.12% to close at 3,029.00.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.33% to 6,961.60 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:) which lost 1.11% to settle at 2,701.70 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:) which was down 0.85% to 1,583.95 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1335 to 918 and 26 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2086 rose and 1683 declined, while 103 ended unchanged.
Shares in Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:) rose to 5-year highs; gaining 2.21% or 6.60 to 304.75.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.03% to 13.99.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.35% or 8.40 to $2,388.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.28% or 0.23 to hit $82.33 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.35% or 0.30 to trade at $85.38 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.07% to 83.56, while EUR/INR rose 0.26% to 90.67.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 104.56.
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