Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Power, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 1.01%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 1.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which rose 4.99% or 167.20 points to trade at 3,518.75 at the close. Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:APLH) added 3.69% or 169.55 points to end at 4,766.20 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) was up 3.38% or 36.85 points to 1,128.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL), which lost 6.32% or 263.35 points to trade at 3,901.95 in late trade. Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) declined 3.01% or 26.60 points to end at 857.65 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC) shed 2.40% or 170.00 points to 6,928.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 1.67% to 1,005.55, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was up 1.03% to settle at 4,415.00 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which gained 1.01% to close at 1,040.20.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 2.28% to 1,201.80 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 2.04% to settle at 8,348.30 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was down 1.96% to 6,950.95 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1653 to 263 and 34 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2673 fell and 748 advanced, while 110 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 12.94% to 15.56 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.16% or 2.95 to $1,822.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.93% or 0.71 to hit $76.94 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 1.05% or 0.84 to trade at $80.83 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.23% to 82.79, while EUR/INR rose 0.18% to 87.89.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 103.76.