Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Metals, Oil & Gas and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.45%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.46%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML), which rose 4.12% or 19.40 points to trade at 489.90 at the close. Meanwhile, AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) added 3.36% or 17.70 points to end at 544.85 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) was up 2.69% or 30.75 points to 1172.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN), which fell 4.11% or 13.80 points to trade at 321.90 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) declined 3.70% or 19.05 points to end at 495.30 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was down 3.02% or 13.65 points to 438.20.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which rose 3.41% to 545.05, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was up 2.51% to settle at 1170.95 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which gained 2.07% to close at 620.95.
The worst performers were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 3.73% to 495.15 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which lost 2.92% to settle at 438.70 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 2.35% to 309.75 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1087 to 499 and 6 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1714 fell and 994 advanced, while 115 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.81% to 13.6100 a new 1-month high.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.48% or 6.10 to $1281.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.19% or 0.11 to hit $57.09 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.06% or 0.04 to trade at $63.73 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.28% to 64.985, while EUR/INR fell 0.04% to 75.3502.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 94.73.