NEW DELHI: Shares of Coal India (number of shares traded: 1.71 crore), State Bank of India (1.42 crore), ICICI Bank (1.27 crore), Ashok Leyland (1.12 crore), NHPC (1.09 crore) and Idea Cellular (1 crore) stood as the most active stocks in terms of volume on NSE on Wednesday.

The Nifty50 index closed 32 points lower at 9,985, while BSE Sensex ended Wednesday's session 90 points down at 31,834.

Oil & gas and IT stocks did well today. Oil stocks such as Petronet LNG, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation and Indraprastha Gas registered significant gains today.

Nifty IT index was the only index, on NSE, that ended in the green on Wednesday, backed by gains in Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and HCL Technologies.

Among the losers in the Nifty50 index, YES Bank topped, with a loss of 3 per cent. State Bank of India, Vedanta, Tata Motors, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Lupin, Coal India and Kotak Mahindra Bank declined up to 2 per cent.

With a gain of nearly 6 per cent, Bharti Airtel stood as the top gainer among the Nifty stocks. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Bharti Infratel, Tata Consultancy Services, Indian Oil Corporation and Wipro were the other top gainers.