Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Real Estate, Capital Goods and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.12%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Titan Company Ltd (NS:TITN), which rose 6.56% or 213.55 points to trade at 3,468.00 at the close. ITC Ltd (NS:ITC) added 6.49% or 30.30 points to end at 496.85 and Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) was up 4.23% or 50.95 points to 1,255.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Shriram Finance Ltd. (NS:SHMF), which lost 3.28% or 92.60 points to trade at 2,734.80 in late trade. Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) declined 3.00% or 109.45 points to end at 3,542.00 and Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) shed 2.97% or 19.95 points to 652.35.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which rose 6.71% to 3,471.00, ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was up 6.58% to settle at 497.00 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which gained 2.53% to close at 383.00.
The worst performers were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was down 3.02% to 3,541.00 in late trade, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which lost 2.07% to settle at 6,740.00 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 1.65% to 863.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1266 to 984 and 22 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2064 fell and 1681 advanced, while 108 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 17.43% to 12.75 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.60% or 14.35 to $2,409.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.19% or 0.15 to hit $78.25 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.18% or 0.15 to trade at $82.25 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.05% to 83.72, while EUR/INR fell 0.25% to 90.92.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 104.18.