Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Metals, Public Sector Undertakings and Banking sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.43%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.44%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 2.66% or 67.40 points to trade at 2602.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC) added 2.81% or 3.30 points to end at 120.35 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) was up 2.42% or 8.15 points to 345.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI), which fell 4.04% or 244.50 points to trade at 5830.75 at the close. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) declined 3.04% or 13.35 points to end at 426.45 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was down 2.57% or 2.90 points to 109.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 2.97% to 346.65, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 2.46% to settle at 274.95 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 2.40% to close at 339.35.
The worst performers were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was down 3.64% to 5829.75 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 2.97% to settle at 426.40 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 2.80% to 109.50 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 798 to 746 and 75 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1164 rose and 1132 declined, while 155 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.54% to 17.2350.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.60% or 9.35 to $1546.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 1.00% or 0.54 to hit $54.48 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.69% or 0.40 to trade at $58.66 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.13% to 72.067, while EUR/INR rose 0.26% to 79.3820.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.37% at 98.578.