Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the rose 0.02%, while the index gained 0.19%.
The best performers of the session on the were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:), which rose 2.28% or 95.90 points to trade at 4,292.85 at the close. Meanwhile, HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:) added 1.93% or 30.70 points to end at 1,623.35 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (NS:) was up 1.47% or 22.05 points to 1,525.45 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. (NS:), which fell 4.03% or 195.80 points to trade at 4,666.00 at the close. Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:) declined 3.17% or 166.50 points to end at 5,079.00 and Coal India Ltd (NS:) was down 2.87% or 14.95 points to 506.80.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:) which rose 2.29% to 4,291.00, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:) which was up 1.97% to settle at 1,624.00 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:) which gained 1.44% to close at 1,524.30.
The worst performers were UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:) which was down 2.46% to 10,991.35 in late trade, JSW Steel Ltd (BO:) which lost 1.85% to settle at 890.90 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which was down 1.85% to 146.15 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1564 to 874 and 27 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2291 fell and 1472 advanced, while 106 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.41% to 15.45.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.14% or 3.60 to $2,511.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.10% or 0.08 to hit $78.27 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.02% or 0.02 to trade at $80.67 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.06% to 83.95, while EUR/INR rose 0.32% to 92.53.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 102.29.
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