Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Real Estate, Technology and IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.60%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.57%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN), which rose 2.52% or 19.05 points to trade at 775.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM) added 1.45% or 26.60 points to end at 1867.00 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) was up 1.12% or 9.35 points to 846.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:BJFN), which fell 3.09% or 218.65 points to trade at 6847.25 at the close. Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) declined 2.70% or 462.80 points to end at 16660.70 and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (NS:APSE) was down 2.38% or 18.20 points to 745.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which rose 2.59% to 775.55, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was up 1.48% to settle at 1867.75 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which gained 1.06% to close at 843.65.
The worst performers were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which was down 3.10% to 6849.80 in late trade, Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:BJFS) which lost 2.55% to settle at 16693.00 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 1.88% to 224.00 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1034 to 746 and 34 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1677 rose and 1560 declined, while 116 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.56% to 17.2175.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.19% or 3.35 to $1768.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.95% or 0.67 to hit $70.06 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.75% or 0.55 to trade at $73.15 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.33% to 76.290, while EUR/INR rose 0.40% to 85.9410.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 96.475.