Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Auto and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.76%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.60%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL), which rose 9.32% or 149.15 points to trade at 1,750.00 at the close. Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) added 7.20% or 42.70 points to end at 636.10 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 2.76% or 78.60 points to 2,931.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which lost 0.79% or 5.65 points to trade at 709.00 in late trade. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) declined 0.46% or 3.45 points to end at 745.00 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) shed 0.37% or 10.40 points to 2,774.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which rose 2.72% to 1,068.75, UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was up 2.21% to settle at 7,570.00 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which gained 1.93% to close at 1,246.80.
The worst performers were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 0.63% to 743.45 in late trade, Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which lost 0.56% to settle at 2,235.25 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 0.53% to 2,769.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1353 to 585 and 54 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2074 rose and 1321 declined, while 114 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 9.75% to 13.63.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.16% or 3.25 to $1,987.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.15% or 0.84 to hit $74.04 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.82% or 0.64 to trade at $78.78 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.15% to 82.30, while EUR/INR rose 0.26% to 89.33.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 102.14.