Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Metals, Banking and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.04%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.96%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 3.31% or 10.45 points to trade at 326.00 at the close. Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN) added 1.37% or 19.70 points to end at 1454.95 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) was up 1.31% or 88.35 points to 6825.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which lost 4.44% or 54.75 points to trade at 1179.15 in late trade. JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) declined 3.59% or 26.35 points to end at 707.90 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) shed 3.39% or 32.20 points to 916.65.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which rose 1.31% to 1454.80, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 1.21% to settle at 6820.40 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which gained 1.05% to close at 225.80.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 3.35% to 917.25 in late trade, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which lost 3.07% to settle at 2329.05 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 2.54% to 115.05 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 904 to 778 and 42 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1524 rose and 1435 declined, while 142 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.26% to 20.0800.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.05% or 0.95 to $1835.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 1.15% or 0.75 to hit $66.03 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 1.09% or 0.75 to trade at $69.30 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.10% to 73.447, while EUR/INR fell 0.02% to 89.0980.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 90.250.