India stocks lower at close of trade; Nifty 50 down 0.03%

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At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.03%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.03%.

The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN), which rose 3.29% or 104.45 points to trade at 3283.15 at the close. Meanwhile, Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) added 1.54% or 26.45 points to end at 1749.20 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was up 1.24% or 6.05 points to 494.70 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which fell 1.54% or 70.50 points to trade at 4506.45 at the close. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) declined 1.42% or 33.80 points to end at 2339.35 and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC) was down 1.17% or 33.30 points to 2808.75.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which rose 3.25% to 3281.90, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 1.25% to settle at 494.70 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which gained 1.02% to close at 859.70.

The worst performers were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was down 1.39% to 2340.45 in late trade, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which lost 1.12% to settle at 2809.95 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 0.92% to 687.65 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1117 to 657 and 38 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2046 rose and 1134 declined, while 119 ended unchanged.

The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.27% to 16.0600.

Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.29% or 5.15 to $1771.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.41% or 0.29 to hit $71.23 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.35% or 0.26 to trade at $74.68 a barrel.

USD/INR was up 0.15% to 75.697, while EUR/INR fell 0.03% to 85.3185.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 96.385.