Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, IT and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.68%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.77%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM), which rose 3.54% or 122.45 points to trade at 3584.00 at the close. Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) added 3.02% or 19.20 points to end at 655.75 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was up 2.34% or 9.40 points to 411.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST), which lost 2.76% or 476.05 points to trade at 16741.20 in late trade. Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) declined 2.54% or 265.60 points to end at 10195.00 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) shed 2.53% or 62.10 points to 2388.15.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 2.78% to 413.50, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was up 2.02% to settle at 230.00 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 1.12% to close at 99.15.
The worst performers were Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was down 2.88% to 16726.05 in late trade, Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which lost 2.56% to settle at 10190.05 and Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was down 2.53% to 2387.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 822 to 810 and 71 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1461 rose and 1393 declined, while 136 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.26% to 21.5050.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.63% or 11.35 to $1787.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.80% or 0.48 to hit $60.53 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.99% or 0.63 to trade at $63.98 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.13% to 72.767, while EUR/INR fell 0.45% to 87.8010.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.34% at 90.808.