India stocks higher at close of trade; Nifty 50 up 0.38% 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 0.38%, while the index gained 0.37%.

The best performers of the session on the were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:), which rose 2.17% or 69.65 points to trade at 3,281.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:) added 2.11% or 16.95 points to end at 820.75 and State Bank Of India (NS:) was up 1.79% or 10.75 points to 611.80 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:), which fell 1.40% or 64.20 points to trade at 4,524.45 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:) declined 1.38% or 5.40 points to end at 385.90 and Titan Company Ltd (NS:) was down 1.04% or 26.90 points to 2,553.25.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:) which rose 1.99% to 819.45, State Bank Of India (BO:) which was up 1.85% to settle at 612.30 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which gained 1.64% to close at 111.75.

The worst performers were Titan Company Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.10% to 2,552.70 in late trade, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:) which lost 0.76% to settle at 6,994.00 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:) which was down 0.65% to 2,567.30 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 968 to 917 and 67 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1786 rose and 1565 declined, while 142 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.78% to 14.81.

Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.19% or 3.45 to $1,812.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.53% or 1.21 to hit $77.75 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.25% or 1.05 to trade at $82.94 a barrel.

USD/INR was up 0.14% to 82.85, while EUR/INR rose 0.38% to 88.12.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 104.04.