Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Capital Goods and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.02%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS), which rose 2.88% or 286.30 points to trade at 10227.95 at the close. Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) added 2.57% or 21.65 points to end at 863.40 and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) was up 2.55% or 22.65 points to 911.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK), which lost 1.87% or 30.10 points to trade at 1581.75 in late trade. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 1.57% or 46.35 points to end at 2901.30 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) shed 1.46% or 8.75 points to 590.20.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which rose 2.65% to 10203.55, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was up 2.23% to settle at 914.55 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which gained 1.80% to close at 5497.00.
The worst performers were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 1.45% to 590.10 in late trade, HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which lost 1.24% to settle at 1592.00 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 0.84% to 100.15 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 874 to 786 and 51 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1432 rose and 1431 declined, while 157 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.31% to 23.9525.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.30% or 5.60 to $1843.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.60% or 0.35 to hit $58.71 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.54% or 0.33 to trade at $61.55 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 72.834, while EUR/INR rose 0.09% to 88.3520.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 90.390.