Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Auto, Consumer Durables and Metals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 1.14%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL), which rose 5.41% or 8.65 points to trade at 168.60 at the close. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) added 4.07% or 350.00 points to end at 8949.45 and Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) was up 2.94% or 15.50 points to 542.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which lost 1.50% or 2.50 points to trade at 164.45 in late trade. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) declined 0.86% or 7.65 points to end at 886.45 and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) shed 0.48% or 5.45 points to 1125.70.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which rose 4.14% to 8951.55, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was up 3.02% to settle at 965.55 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which gained 2.50% to close at 1497.70.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 0.72% to 887.40 in late trade, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which lost 0.50% to settle at 230.05 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was down 0.38% to 209.30 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 946 to 850 and 38 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1671 rose and 1566 declined, while 105 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.74% to 18.5550.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.00% or 0.05 to $1827.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.43% or 0.38 to hit $88.98 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.34% or 0.31 to trade at $90.47 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.07% to 74.771, while EUR/INR rose 0.30% to 85.5070.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 95.433.