Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Power, Auto and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.33%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.26%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Yes Bank Ltd (NS:YESB), which rose 5.87% or 14.90 points to trade at 268.45 at the close. Meanwhile, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) added 5.68% or 97.35 points to end at 1804.25 and Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (NS:INBF) was up 2.78% or 20.30 points to 750.40 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL), which fell 2.82% or 7.80 points to trade at 269.20 at the close. NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) declined 2.70% or 3.80 points to end at 137.00 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was down 1.67% or 358.00 points to 20974.15.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Yes Bank Ltd (BO:YESB) which rose 5.62% to 267.95, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was up 5.27% to settle at 1805.85 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which gained 1.57% to close at 308.05.
The worst performers were NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 2.25% to 136.95 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which lost 1.85% to settle at 169.90 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 1.49% to 323.30 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 885 to 740 and 59 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1494 fell and 1144 advanced, while 141 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.41% to 17.0475.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.16% or 2.15 to $1323.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.70% or 0.42 to hit $59.52 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.27% or 0.18 to trade at $67.25 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.29% to 68.826, while EUR/INR fell 0.09% to 77.6380.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 96.235.