Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.10%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which rose 4.22% or 156.75 points to trade at 3,873.60 at the close. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) added 2.83% or 328.20 points to end at 11,925.25 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:PGRD) was up 2.18% or 5.65 points to 264.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which lost 2.08% or 3.10 points to trade at 145.65 in late trade. Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) declined 1.94% or 22.20 points to end at 1,124.05 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) shed 1.81% or 17.30 points to 940.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which rose 2.92% to 11,936.20, Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was up 2.22% to settle at 2,552.00 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which gained 2.16% to close at 264.55.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 2.25% to 145.30 in late trade, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which lost 1.20% to settle at 1,431.50 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 1.11% to 2,244.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1288 to 901 and 32 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2124 fell and 1525 advanced, while 104 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.54% to 13.47 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.16% or 3.45 to $2,156.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.74% or 0.61 to hit $82.12 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.69% or 0.60 to trade at $86.78 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.18% to 83.18, while EUR/INR fell 0.05% to 90.17.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 103.78.