Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the IT, Technology and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.36%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 0.42%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT), which rose 4.14% or 37.55 points to trade at 942.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:TEML) added 3.54% or 20.30 points to end at 595.20 and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS) was up 3.31% or 97.60 points to 3042.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which fell 6.36% or 35.60 points to trade at 525.75 at the close. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 3.11% or 7.75 points to end at 240.65 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN) was down 2.36% or 38.75 points to 1596.45.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which rose 3.33% to 3043.05, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was up 2.00% to settle at 268.05 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which gained 1.66% to close at 190.10.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 6.19% to 524.75 in late trade, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which lost 1.93% to settle at 1596.65 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 1.57% to 640.55 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 972 to 612 and 38 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1558 fell and 1087 advanced, while 141 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.62% to 15.9200.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.01% or 0.10 to $1331.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.91% or 0.56 to hit $61.23 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.57% or 0.37 to trade at $64.88 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.31% to 64.835, while EUR/INR fell 0.25% to 79.8208.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 89.81.