Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the declined 0.14%, while the index declined 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:), which rose 2.98% or 7.84 points to trade at 271.33 at the close. Meanwhile, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:) added 1.99% or 80.10 points to end at 4,108.40 and Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:) was up 1.99% or 24.65 points to 1,265.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:), which fell 3.95% or 294.10 points to trade at 7,142.65 at the close. Trent Ltd (NS:) declined 2.55% or 175.20 points to end at 6,699.10 and Shriram Finance Ltd. (NS:) was down 2.02% or 59.65 points to 2,898.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ITC Ltd (BO:) which rose 1.89% to 449.45, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:) which was up 1.83% to settle at 2,335.05 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:) which gained 1.80% to close at 4,100.70.
The worst performers were UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.75% to 11,411.25 in late trade, Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:) which lost 1.22% to settle at 3,597.55 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:) which was down 1.19% to 1,832.00 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1568 to 666 and 150 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2444 fell and 1330 advanced, while 94 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.36% to 14.46.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.13% or 3.34 to $2,668.74 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.89% or 0.66 to hit $74.91 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.57% or 0.44 to trade at $77.49 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.06% to 85.86, while EUR/INR fell 0.18% to 88.57.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 108.76.
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