Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Metals, Oil & Gas and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.52%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE), which rose 4.89% or 13.90 points to trade at 298.00 at the close. Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) added 2.64% or 20.35 points to end at 792.00 and Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) was up 1.84% or 281.05 points to 15561.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which lost 5.25% or 6.45 points to trade at 116.30 in late trade. Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) declined 5.24% or 10.60 points to end at 191.55 and NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) shed 3.97% or 4.65 points to 112.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which rose 1.86% to 15564.60, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was up 1.61% to settle at 2206.50 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which gained 1.06% to close at 769.95.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 5.13% to 116.45 in late trade, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which lost 4.27% to settle at 112.20 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 2.46% to 1585.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 892 to 617 and 117 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1342 fell and 1041 advanced, while 160 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.14% to 16.3600 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.02% or 0.35 to $1558.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.75% or 0.44 to hit $57.94 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.65% or 0.42 to trade at $64.17 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.08% to 71.220, while EUR/INR rose 0.15% to 78.9795.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 97.345.