Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Metals and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 1.35%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 1.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 7.35% or 22.50 points to trade at 328.60 at the close. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) added 6.49% or 32.40 points to end at 532.00 and Adani Enterprises Ltd (NS:ADEL) was up 3.72% or 114.30 points to 3,187.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK), which lost 2.45% or 33.85 points to trade at 1,347.15 in late trade. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 0.71% or 32.90 points to end at 4,621.00 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) shed 0.53% or 7.85 points to 1,475.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which rose 3.20% to 351.80, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 2.66% to settle at 154.25 and JSW Steel Ltd (BO:JSTL) which gained 2.61% to close at 907.00.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 2.33% to 1,347.75 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 0.40% to settle at 1,437.80 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was down 0.33% to 2,741.30 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 2077 to 363 and 25 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2842 rose and 914 declined, while 97 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 14.11% to 16.10.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.16% or 3.90 to $2,435.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 1.39% or 1.02 to hit $74.22 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.43% or 1.09 to trade at $77.57 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.01% to 83.96, while EUR/INR fell 0.06% to 91.69.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 102.99.