Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, IT and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.02%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Punjab National Bank (NS:PNBK), which rose 8.31% or 6.90 points to trade at 89.90 at the close. Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) added 2.99% or 14.00 points to end at 482.70 and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (NS:APSE) was up 2.96% or 6.00 points to 208.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC), which lost 2.24% or 76.00 points to trade at 3321.90 in late trade. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) declined 1.77% or 8.20 points to end at 455.55 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) shed 1.73% or 17.50 points to 991.15.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which rose 2.77% to 482.20, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 2.65% to settle at 207.55 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which gained 0.96% to close at 353.30.
The worst performers were Bajaj Auto Limited (BO:BAJA) which was down 1.00% to 2561.20 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 0.93% to settle at 4096.90 and Hero MotoCorp Limited (BO:HROM) which was down 0.91% to 3011.55 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 914 to 514 and 60 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 980 rose and 603 declined, while 51 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.66% to 17.1900 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.28% or 3.65 to $1283.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.33% or 0.65 to hit $48.23 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.29% or 0.65 to trade at $49.70 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.12% to 67.270, while EUR/INR fell 0.54% to 75.4670.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.46% at 94.85.