Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Real Estate, Banking and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.27%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 1.92% or 42.20 points to trade at 2236.00 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 1.74% or 7.35 points to end at 430.50 and NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) was up 1.60% or 2.60 points to 165.55 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NS:ABUJ), which lost 4.39% or 11.55 points to trade at 251.40 in late trade. AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) declined 2.32% or 12.80 points to end at 538.40 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) shed 2.50% or 6.85 points to 267.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 2.07% to 431.05, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was up 1.82% to settle at 2234.15 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which gained 1.64% to close at 3598.25.
The worst performers were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 2.68% to 537.50 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 2.53% to settle at 267.80 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 2.02% to 544.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1064 to 534 and 28 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1669 fell and 1000 advanced, while 139 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.66% to 13.9225.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.07% or 0.90 to $1333.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.27% or 0.17 to hit $63.74 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.10% or 0.07 to trade at $67.22 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.15% to 64.915, while EUR/INR rose 0.28% to 80.0010.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 89.77.