Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Real Estate, Auto and Capital Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.01%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.97%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 4.98% or 1.75 points to trade at 36.90 at the close. State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) added 0.41% or 1.35 points to end at 328.15 and Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) was up 0.14% or 0.30 points to 216.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL), which lost 5.13% or 5.85 points to trade at 108.15 in late trade. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) declined 3.83% or 14.90 points to end at 374.00 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) shed 3.60% or 5.40 points to 144.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 0.51% to 328.25, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was up 0.38% to settle at 2240.95 and HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which gained 0.23% to close at 584.00.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 3.60% to 374.60 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 2.73% to settle at 6237.60 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was down 2.49% to 1211.45 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1068 to 468 and 83 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1544 fell and 796 advanced, while 143 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 8.06% to 18.2600 a new 6-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.03% or 0.55 to $1649.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 1.14% or 0.57 to hit $49.33 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 1.49% or 0.81 to trade at $53.45 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.23% to 71.645, while EUR/INR fell 0.23% to 77.9390.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 99.037.