Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Healthcare sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 1.30% to hit a new 3-months low, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 1.25%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM), which rose 2.94% or 39.05 points to trade at 1365.40 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Infratel Limited (NS:BHRI) added 2.70% or 9.600 points to end at 365.050 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) was up 1.30% or 15.75 points to 1230.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which fell 4.06% or 11.75 points to trade at 277.40 at the close. Tata Motors DV Ltd (NS:TAMdv) declined 3.60% or 12.55 points to end at 336.00 and Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB) was down 3.41% or 5.30 points to 150.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which rose 3.54% to 1369.35, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was up 0.74% to settle at 841.45 and NTPC Limited (BO:NTPC) which gained 0.74% to close at 156.10.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 4.10% to 277.35 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd. (BO:TAMO) which lost 3.19% to settle at 514.00 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 2.75% to 251.30 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1240 to 263 and 40 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1936 fell and 934 advanced, while 104 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 6.75% to 16.7975 a new 1-month high.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.70% or 9.05 to $1297.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.54% or 0.72 to hit $45.95 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.52% or 0.73 to trade at $47.41 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.08% to 66.746, while EUR/INR rose 0.35% to 73.9910.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.27% at 97.50.