Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the , and sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the added 0.73%, while the index added 0.81%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:), which rose 3.53% or 6.60 points to trade at 193.80 at the close. ITC Ltd (NS:) added 2.99% or 8.90 points to end at 306.80 and Adani Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:) was up 3.00% or 10.95 points to 376.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:), which lost 2.18% or 14.15 points to trade at 635.45 in late trade. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:) declined 2.08% or 5.55 points to end at 262.40 and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:) shed 1.52% or 3.70 points to 240.40.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:) which rose 3.40% to 193.20, ITC Ltd (BO:) which was up 3.11% to settle at 306.50 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:) which gained 2.98% to close at 649.85.
The worst performers were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:) which was down 2.30% to 635.55 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:) which lost 1.70% to settle at 262.65 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.28% to 375.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 977 to 635 and 49 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1498 fell and 1058 advanced, while 177 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 7.05% to 14.2500.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $1202.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.85% or 0.59 to hit $69.84 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.11 to trade at $79.17 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.55% to 72.155, while EUR/INR fell 0.89% to 83.5480.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 95.10.
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