India stocks lower at close of trade; Nifty 50 down 0.32% By Investing.com

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 lost 0.32%, while the index declined 0.31%.

The best performers of the session on the were Coal India Ltd (NS:), which rose 3.27% or 7.10 points to trade at 223.95 at the close. Meanwhile, UPL Ltd (NS:) added 2.14% or 15.65 points to end at 748.00 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:) was up 1.41% or 2.10 points to 151.35 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:), which fell 3.88% or 139.60 points to trade at 3,457.10 at the close. Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:) declined 3.12% or 91.85 points to end at 2,853.40 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:) was down 1.90% or 7.75 points to 400.65.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which rose 0.73% to 123.50, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:) which was up 0.64% to settle at 220.75 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:) which gained 0.49% to close at 1,053.40.

The worst performers were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:) which was down 2.64% to 2,868.05 in late trade, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:) which lost 1.89% to settle at 1,199.45 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:) which was down 1.73% to 1,767.90 at the close.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1122 to 786 and 60 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1859 fell and 1537 advanced, while 109 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.87% to 13.96.

Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.12% or 2.25 to $1,909.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.13% or 0.90 to hit $78.90 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.93% or 0.79 to trade at $84.19 a barrel.

USD/INR was down 0.07% to 81.38, while EUR/INR rose 0.21% to 88.07.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 101.97.