Investing.com – India stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Auto, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Carbon sectors led shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 2.29%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 2.42%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE), which rose 20.00% or 25.85 points to trade at 155.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) added 9.83% or 121.65 points to end at 1359.00 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) was up 5.27% or 90.90 points to 1816.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which fell 5.62% or 3.90 points to trade at 65.45 at the close. Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) declined 2.55% or 2.00 points to end at 76.45 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) was down 1.71% or 14.85 points to 855.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which rose 10.30% to 1363.35, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which was up 5.30% to settle at 1817.00 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which gained 3.93% to close at 416.55.
The worst performers were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was down 5.63% to 65.35 in late trade, Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which lost 2.07% to settle at 852.65 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:PGRD) which was down 0.34% to 162.10 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 823 to 694 and 81 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1234 rose and 1041 declined, while 155 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.25% to 42.8225.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 1.88% or 31.70 to $1719.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.09% or 0.01 to hit $11.56 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 2.79% or 0.54 to trade at $19.87 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.62% to 76.490, while EUR/INR fell 0.53% to 83.1180.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 100.170.