Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Metals, Consumer Durables and Capital Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.14%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 1.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which rose 3.41% or 11.70 points to trade at 355.60 at the close. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) added 3.25% or 910.00 points to end at 28934.25 and Bosch Ltd (NS:BOSH) was up 3.07% or 585.90 points to 19685.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which lost 4.13% or 31.65 points to trade at 732.50 in late trade. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 3.44% or 7.15 points to end at 200.80 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) shed 3.55% or 20.60 points to 560.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 3.60% to 355.70, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which was up 2.84% to settle at 198.90 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which gained 0.81% to close at 3669.95.
The worst performers were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 3.29% to 560.45 in late trade, AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which lost 2.61% to settle at 490.15 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was down 2.52% to 1296.35 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 970 to 637 and 32 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1395 fell and 1154 advanced, while 145 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 7.61% to 16.3400 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.69% or 9.20 to $1346.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.81% or 1.15 to hit $62.36 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 1.75% or 1.19 to trade at $66.93 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.39% to 65.171, while EUR/INR rose 0.30% to 79.9942.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 89.80.