Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

NSE closed with the index falling 0.55% and the market losing 0.50%.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. were the top performers during the session. These stocks rose by 4.63% (or 33.80) to close at 763.05 Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (NS) gained 4.26% (6.25 points) to finish at 152.95 Coal India Ltd (NSS:) rose 1.86% to 159.10, or 2.90 point in late trading.

Tata Consumer Products Ltd. (NS) were the worst-performing session. They fell 2.68 points or 22.00 to close at 798.95. Eicher Motors Ltd., NS: fell by 2.39% (or 62.25) to finish at 2536.95 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS.:) dropped 2.35% to 7669.45, or 184.55 Points.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., which increased 1.45% to 2012..00, NTPC Ltd. (BO) which was up 1.42% at 135.40, and ICICI Bank Ltd. (BO) which saw a gain of 1.11% at 760.20.

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.(BO:), which fell 2.62% at 7645.00 in late trading, Infosys Ltd. (BO;) that lost 2.01% at 1697.50, and ITC Ltd. (BO.) that dropped 1.60% at 227.90 by the close.

Indian National Stock Exchange: Rising stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1020 to 728. 45 ended unchanged. On Bombay Stock Exchange, 1912 rose while 1279 fell, while 133 was unchanged.

The implied volatility index of Nifty 50 options was lower by 5.11%, to 17.0950.

The December delivery of Gold Futures was up 0.3% or 6.65, to $1790.45 per troy ounce. In commodities trading, crude oil fell 0.15 or 0.1% to reach $78.35 per barrel. The January Brent oil contract dropped 0.22 or 0.27 to trade at $82.09 per barrel.

USD/INR declined 0.04% at 74.398 while EUR/INR dropped 0.32% at 83.4380.

At 96.705, the US Dollar Index Futures rose 0.22%.