Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Consumer Durables, Banking and Capital Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 1.01%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.98%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were ICICI Bank Ltd . (NS:ICBK), which rose 3.78% or 9.65 points to trade at 265.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) added 3.48% or 176.85 points to end at 5265.00 and Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NS:ABUJ) was up 2.90% or 5.95 points to 211.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Idea Cellular Ltd (NS:IDEA), which fell 2.71% or 2.15 points to trade at 77.10 at the close. Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) declined 1.30% or 19.80 points to end at 1498.35 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) was down 0.99% or 4.25 points to 423.75.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd. (BO:ICBK) which rose 3.62% to 265.00, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was up 3.39% to settle at 5263.45 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which gained 2.15% to close at 258.40.
The worst performers were Lupin Ltd (BO:LUPN) which was down 0.91% to 1503.20 in late trade, Gail (India) Ltd. (BO:GAIL) which lost 0.74% to settle at 424.80 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which was down 0.45% to 566.55 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1055 to 418 and 56 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1740 rose and 820 declined, while 196 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.84% to 16.8500.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.11% or 1.35 to $1189.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 5.86% or 2.65 to hit $47.88 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 6.38% or 3.02 to trade at $50.34 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.19% to 68.487, while EUR/INR fell 0.25% to 72.8890.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.17% at 101.15.