Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the IT, Auto and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.50% to hit a new 1-month low, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.55%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE), which rose 4.63% or 33.80 points to trade at 763.05 at the close. Meanwhile, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) added 4.26% or 6.25 points to end at 152.95 and Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) was up 1.86% or 2.90 points to 159.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN), which fell 2.68% or 22.00 points to trade at 798.95 at the close. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 2.39% or 62.25 points to end at 2536.95 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) was down 2.35% or 184.55 points to 7669.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which rose 1.45% to 2012.00, NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was up 1.42% to settle at 135.40 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 1.11% to close at 760.20.
The worst performers were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was down 2.62% to 7645.00 in late trade, Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which lost 2.01% to settle at 1697.50 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 1.60% to 227.90 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1020 to 728 and 45 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1912 rose and 1279 declined, while 133 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.11% to 17.0950.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.37% or 6.65 to $1790.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.19% or 0.15 to hit $78.35 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.27% or 0.22 to trade at $82.09 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.04% to 74.398, while EUR/INR fell 0.32% to 83.4380.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 96.705.