NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications finished Wednesday's session as the most traded stock on NSE.Through the day, nearly 9.51 crore shares of the company changed hands on NSE.Jaiprakash Associates (number of shares traded: 7.62 crore), GMR Infrastructure (3.76 crore), IDBI Bank (2.57 crore), ICICI Bank (2.53 crore) and Punjab National Bank (2.30 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks in that order.Indian equities markets lurched lower on Wednesday owing to across the board selling, led by oil gas, metal, capital goods, bank, power and utility stocks.Factors, including falling rupee, surging oil prices and weak global cues thwarted market sentiment.
Moreover, investors restricted their bets ahead of the expiry of June series of future and option contracts tomorrow.
The Sensex plunged by 273 points, or 0.77 per cent, settling at 35,217, with just four stocks in the green.
The 50-share index Nifty closed the day 98 points, or 0.91 per cent, down at 10,671.
Only eight stocks could manage to close in the green in the index.Tech Mahindra, Bharti Infratel, HCL Technologies, HDFC Bank, Cipla and Dr.
Reddy's Laboratories emerged as the top gainers in the Nifty index on Wednesday.