Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the IT, Technology and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.83%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.94%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL), which rose 3.17% or 5.95 points to trade at 193.85 at the close. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) added 2.77% or 3.40 points to end at 126.05 and NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) was up 2.62% or 3.90 points to 153.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included HDFC Bank Ltd (NS:HDBK), which lost 3.57% or 57.40 points to trade at 1,550.85 in late trade. Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:HDFC) declined 3.34% or 87.65 points to end at 2,536.05 and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) shed 2.40% or 13.65 points to 556.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which rose 2.61% to 153.05, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 1.94% to settle at 1,371.00 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which gained 1.52% to close at 236.60.
The worst performers were HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was down 3.51% to 1,550.80 in late trade, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:HDFC) which lost 3.26% to settle at 2,536.50 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which was down 2.07% to 1,170.80 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1171 to 658 and 33 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2126 rose and 1175 declined, while 93 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.89% to 19.02.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.08% or 1.60 to $1,925.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.42% or 1.45 to hit $103.41 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.18% or 1.26 to trade at $107.90 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.45% to 75.76, while EUR/INR rose 0.47% to 82.65.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 99.53.