Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Public Sector Undertakings and Banking sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.20% to hit a new 3-months high, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.22%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE), which rose 14.06% or 24.45 points to trade at 198.40 at the close. Meanwhile, GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) added 5.00% or 4.85 points to end at 101.80 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) was up 2.24% or 15.95 points to 729.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:BAJA), which fell 1.20% or 37.30 points to trade at 3067.50 at the close. Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) declined 1.18% or 0.95 points to end at 79.70 and Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) was down 1.12% or 184.60 points to 16370.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which rose 1.97% to 727.20, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 1.79% to settle at 536.25 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 1.46% to close at 374.80.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 1.36% to 79.50 in late trade, Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which lost 1.19% to settle at 3068.00 and Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was down 1.16% to 16357.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1100 to 524 and 69 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1676 rose and 931 declined, while 142 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.31% to 19.9575 a new 3-months low.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.84% or 17.00 to $1996.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.88% or 0.38 to hit $42.74 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.90% or 0.41 to trade at $45.05 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.34% to 74.825, while EUR/INR rose 0.40% to 89.3170.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 92.265.