Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Auto and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.30%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 13.00% or 8.20 points to trade at 71.60 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 10.66% or 13.00 points to end at 134.35 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 5.10% or 827.25 points to 17013.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR), which lost 2.91% or 7.45 points to trade at 248.15 in late trade. Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) declined 3.13% or 4.05 points to end at 125.75 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) shed 2.80% or 3.70 points to 128.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 13.47% to 71.60, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was up 10.59% to settle at 61.60 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which gained 10.21% to close at 134.35.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 2.93% to 125.70 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 2.48% to settle at 1057.25 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.57% to 422.05 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1212 to 371 and 64 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1775 rose and 729 declined, while 148 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.03% to 15.3725 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.05% or 0.80 to $1500.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.92% or 0.53 to hit $57.93 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.72% or 0.45 to trade at $62.83 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.21% to 71.722, while EUR/INR fell 0.43% to 79.0265.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 98.502.