Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Capital Goods, Oil & Gas and Metals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.19%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (NS:ARBN), which rose 2.66% or 22.30 points to trade at 861.00 at the close. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS) added 1.50% or 35.90 points to end at 2437.00 and Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) was up 1.27% or 19.00 points to 1513.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (NS:APSE), which lost 2.18% or 5.90 points to trade at 264.50 in late trade. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 1.69% or 2.60 points to end at 151.00 and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) shed 1.67% or 5.35 points to 315.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which rose 1.24% to 2430.70, Wipro Ltd. (BO:WIPR) which was up 1.17% to settle at 484.40 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which gained 0.54% to close at 770.50.
The worst performers were Hindalco Industries Ltd. (BO:HALC) which was down 2.19% to 149.80 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 2.01% to settle at 314.00 and Larsen & Toubro Limited (BO:LART) which was down 1.99% to 1439.50 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 812 to 668 and 66 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1400 fell and 1240 advanced, while 205 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 2.16% to 14.2500.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.22% or 2.95 to $1341.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 1.37% or 0.63 to hit $45.30 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.46% or 0.70 to trade at $47.23 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.19% to 66.486, while EUR/INR fell 0.27% to 74.7720.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.02% at 95.23.