Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Metals, Real Estate and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the S&P CNX Nifty declined 0.25%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.27%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P CNX Nifty were Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (NSE:BHEL), which rose 4.22% or 10.30 points to trade at 254.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NSE:ZEE) added 2.79% or 9.65 points to end at 355.20 and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NSE:HLL) was up 2.38% or 20.85 points to 896.55 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Punjab National Bank (NSE:PNBK), which fell 3.60% or 5.15 points to trade at 138.05 at the close. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NSE:HALC) declined 3.58% or 4.35 points to end at 117.25 and Bank Of Baroda (NSE:BOB) was down 2.93% or 4.40 points to 145.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BO:BHEL) which rose 4.06% to 253.95, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was up 2.40% to settle at 895.30 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 1.54% to close at 870.80.
The worst performers were Hindalco Industries Ltd. (BO:HALC) which was down 3.70% to 117.15 in late trade, TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which lost 2.98% to settle at 304.10 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 2.27% to 1303.35 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 838 to 593 and 7 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 471 fell and 266 advanced, while 1 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of S&P CNX Nifty options, was up 5.80% to 15.9150.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.08% or 0.90 to $1177.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.11% or 0.07 to hit $61.08 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.06% or 0.04 to trade at $64.49 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.03% to 63.626, while EUR/INR rose 0.25% to 71.2210.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.19% at 95.42.