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

NSE closed with the index losing 0.62% and the market lost 0.75 %.

State Bank Of India’s (NS:) was among the top performers during the session. It rose by 1.13%, or 5.65 points, to trade at 503.80 after the close. Meanwhile, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS: ) was up 0.70% or 0.90 to finish at 129.35 HDFC Bank Ltd (NS): The stock index was up by 0.56%, or 8.60 point to 1539.40 late trade.

They were also the session’s worst performers Tata Motors Ltd (NS:), fell 3.86%, or 20.45 point to trade at 509.70 by the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., NS:), declined 3.50% (or 33.45 points) to close at 921.00 Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS) fell 3.13%, or 50.70 point to 1567.75.

BSE Sensex 30’s top performers were State Bank Of India (BO :), which increased 1.16% to 503.35, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.(BO 🙂 that was up 0.63% and settled at 192.35. HDFC Bank Ltd. meanwhile (BO 🙂 closed at 1539.60 with a gain of 0.58%.

The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:) which was down 3.28% to 923.80 in late trade, Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:) which lost 3.19% to settle at 1566.30 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:) which was down 2.88% to 1120.20 at the close.

On the India National Stock Exchange, falling stocks outnumbered those that advanced by 1361, 400, and 42 respectively. The Bombay Stock Exchange was the opposite. 2211 declined and 1020 advanced while 129 remained unchanged.

The index, which tracks the implied volatility for Nifty 50 options (or 50) was 0.8% lower at 14.8575, a new one-month low.

The December delivery of Gold Futures was lower by 0.40%, or 7.50 percent to $1862.70 per troy ounce. In commodities trading, crude oil fell 0.2% or 0.18 to $77.37 per barrel. The January Brent oil contract dropped 0.12% or 0.10, to $80.18 per barrel.

USD/INR was up 0.9% to 74.304. EUR/INR rose by 0.25%, to 84.2420.

US Dollar Index Futures were 0.12% lower at 95.715