Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Technology and Carbon sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.63%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index declined 0.85%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 3.49% or 95.05 points to trade at 2810.75 at the close. ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK) added 3.19% or 13.95 points to end at 451.15 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was up 2.38% or 12.40 points to 534.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY), which lost 16.65% or 127.85 points to trade at 643.55 in late trade. Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) declined 4.02% or 5.50 points to end at 131.75 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (NS:BJFS) shed 3.16% or 260.95 points to 8008.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which rose 3.06% to 451.15, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 1.10% to settle at 405.80 and Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which gained 1.04% to close at 3120.00.
The worst performers were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 16.21% to 643.30 in late trade, Tata Motors Ltd DVR (BO:TAMdv) which lost 4.48% to settle at 58.65 and Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was down 3.51% to 131.90 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 786 to 782 and 88 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1242 fell and 1190 advanced, while 186 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 5.54% to 16.8100.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.18% or 2.75 to $1490.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.50% or 0.27 to hit $53.78 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.63% or 0.37 to trade at $59.33 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.10% to 70.990, while EUR/INR rose 0.04% to 79.0935.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 97.107.