Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Metals, Real Estate and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.25%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bosch Ltd (NS:BOSH), which rose 2.51% or 535.50 points to trade at 21900.00 at the close. Yes Bank Ltd. (NS:YESB) added 2.20% or 31.80 points to end at 1480.00 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) was up 1.53% or 7.75 points to 514.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Idea Cellular Ltd (NS:IDEA), which lost 2.26% or 2.45 points to trade at 106.15 in late trade. TATA STEEL LIMITED (NS:TISC) declined 2.10% or 10.10 points to end at 471.90 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) shed 1.91% or 3.75 points to 192.65.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 0.62% to 269.70, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 0.53% to settle at 2513.90 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which gained 0.40% to close at 589.95.
The worst performers were TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which was down 1.89% to 472.90 in late trade, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which lost 1.78% to settle at 192.75 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 1.30% to 1302.70 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1022 to 477 and 65 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1716 fell and 1038 advanced, while 156 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.44% to 14.0750.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.27% or 3.25 to $1212.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.72% or 0.38 to hit $52.76 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.54% or 0.30 to trade at $55.62 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.11% to 66.716, while EUR/INR rose 0.08% to 70.4527.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 101.91.