Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the IT, Banking and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 unchanged 0.00%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 2.92% or 17.65 points to trade at 621.95 at the close. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 2.56% or 25.35 points to end at 1,013.90 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) was up 2.49% or 111.25 points to 4,588.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which lost 3.27% or 204.60 points to trade at 6,053.00 in late trade. Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) declined 2.22% or 64.65 points to end at 2,848.35 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) shed 2.00% or 48.40 points to 2,372.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which rose 2.12% to 301.50, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 2.02% to settle at 356.10 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which gained 1.50% to close at 3,484.25.
The worst performers were Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was down 3.34% to 6,050.00 in late trade, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which lost 2.22% to settle at 2,847.00 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 1.83% to 2,336.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1282 to 905 and 57 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2043 rose and 1604 declined, while 125 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.43% to 17.08.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.04% or 0.90 to $2,323.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.94% or 0.74 to hit $77.64 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.89% or 0.74 to trade at $82.42 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.05% to 83.51, while EUR/INR rose 0.03% to 89.80.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 105.38.