Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.64%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.59%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC), which rose 2.09% or 2.95 points to trade at 144.00 at the close. State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) added 1.45% or 11.00 points to end at 771.10 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) was up 0.72% or 10.80 points to 1,515.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which lost 3.62% or 23.80 points to trade at 633.80 in late trade. NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) declined 2.91% or 10.05 points to end at 335.65 and Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) shed 2.82% or 12.60 points to 433.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 1.99% to 143.85, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 1.51% to settle at 771.55 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which gained 0.88% to close at 1,517.60.
The worst performers were NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 2.76% to 336.10 in late trade, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which lost 2.71% to settle at 280.15 and Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which was down 2.00% to 521.15 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1487 to 681 and 24 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2270 fell and 1436 advanced, while 94 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.90% to 15.93.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.02% or 0.35 to $2,039.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.45% or 0.35 to hit $76.69 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.43% or 0.35 to trade at $81.99 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.08% to 82.95, while EUR/INR fell 0.06% to 89.54.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 104.04.