Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Metals, Real Estate and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.67% to hit a new 1-month low, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.55%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 2.36% or 11.65 points to trade at 504.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) added 2.29% or 26.50 points to end at 1181.55 and Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NS:ABUJ) was up 1.77% or 4.80 points to 276.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI), which fell 4.86% or 19.30 points to trade at 377.65 at the close. Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) declined 4.35% or 13.45 points to end at 295.50 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was down 4.07% or 21.40 points to 504.65.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which rose 1.96% to 1176.85, Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which was up 0.72% to settle at 3680.00 and ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which gained 0.54% to close at 315.55.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 4.01% to 505.05 in late trade, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which lost 2.55% to settle at 177.35 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 2.15% to 487.35 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1266 to 329 and 6 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1902 fell and 753 advanced, while 103 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.71% to 14.2650.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.20% or 2.60 to $1285.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.10% or 0.61 to hit $55.09 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.11% or 0.69 to trade at $61.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.28% to 65.239, while EUR/INR rose 0.10% to 77.2536.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 93.43.