India stocks higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.16% By Investing.com

Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.

At the close in NSE, the added 0.16%, while the index climbed 0.20%.

The best performers of the session on the were Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:), which rose 2.65% or 181.60 points to trade at 7028.85 at the close. Meanwhile, Infosys Ltd (NS:) added 2.16% or 37.40 points to end at 1771.60 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:) was up 1.76% or 6.75 points to 391.05 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:), which fell 1.71% or 7.85 points to trade at 450.50 at the close. Cipla Ltd. (NS:) declined 1.64% or 14.70 points to end at 881.00 and ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:) was down 1.48% or 11.10 points to 741.15.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:) which rose 2.61% to 7028.60, Infosys Ltd (BO:) which was up 2.19% to settle at 1771.40 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:) which gained 1.47% to close at 2357.20.

The worst performers were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:) which was down 1.51% to 7452.65 in late trade, ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:) which lost 1.50% to settle at 741.30 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.44% to 3250.00 at the close.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1170 to 621 and 28 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1811 fell and 1446 advanced, while 98 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 7.68% to 15.8950.

Gold Futures for February delivery was up 1.29% or 22.75 to $1787.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.16% or 0.82 to hit $71.69 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 1.04% or 0.77 to trade at $74.65 a barrel.

USD/INR was down 0.30% to 76.113, while EUR/INR fell 0.10% to 86.0640.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 96.190.