Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Real Estate and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.46%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which rose 4.83% or 20.55 points to trade at 445.85 at the close. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY) added 4.14% or 126.05 points to end at 3169.75 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 2.78% or 10.95 points to 404.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which lost 6.09% or 1.90 points to trade at 29.30 in late trade. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 4.01% or 716.90 points to end at 17171.55 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) shed 3.91% or 174.20 points to 4279.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 3.14% to 405.70, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was up 2.68% to settle at 1849.85 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 2.45% to close at 771.00.
The worst performers were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 3.85% to 1066.25 in late trade, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which lost 3.79% to settle at 4287.05 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 3.30% to 187.45 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1151 to 388 and 76 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1641 fell and 641 advanced, while 127 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.29% to 24.2250.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.14% or 2.30 to $1642.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.25% or 0.59 to hit $47.77 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.12% or 0.58 to trade at $52.44 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.27% to 73.229, while EUR/INR rose 0.09% to 81.6525.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 97.282.