Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Auto and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.19%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 1.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (NS:APSE), which rose 7.80% or 18.70 points to trade at 258.45 at the close. Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB) added 1.23% or 1.95 points to end at 160.40 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS) was up 0.95% or 25.20 points to 2675.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Grasim Industries Ltd. (NS:GRAS), which lost 6.61% or 342.85 points to trade at 4843.50 in late trade. Idea Cellular Ltd (NS:IDEA) declined 4.32% or 4.20 points to end at 92.95 and ACC Ltd (NS:ACC) shed 3.98% or 67.05 points to 1618.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which rose 0.88% to 2673.90, Coal India Limited (BO:COAL) which was up 0.31% to settle at 338.00 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which unchanged 0.00% to close at 229.00.
The worst performers were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 2.63% to 1002.80 in late trade, Hero MotoCorp Limited (BO:HROM) which lost 2.56% to settle at 3320.20 and ICICI Bank Ltd. (BO:ICBK) which was down 2.47% to 239.30 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1136 to 336 and 54 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1238 fell and 391 advanced, while 38 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.65% to 14.9225.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.90% or 12.15 to $1358.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.08% or 0.46 to hit $42.31 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.71% or 0.32 to trade at $44.66 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.11% to 66.701, while EUR/INR rose 0.34% to 74.5110.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.52% at 95.56.