Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.27%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.20%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (NS:TCS), which rose 2.25% or 47.65 points to trade at 2163.00 at the close. JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) added 1.60% or 4.15 points to end at 263.10 and Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) was up 1.53% or 6.35 points to 421.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which lost 2.67% or 84.80 points to trade at 3091.50 in late trade. Hindalco Industries Ltd. (NS:HALC) declined 2.60% or 4.65 points to end at 174.40 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) shed 2.60% or 10.35 points to 387.50.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which rose 1.98% to 2158.30, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was up 1.44% to settle at 421.35 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 1.22% to close at 536.25.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 2.37% to 388.60 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 2.10% to settle at 582.65 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 1.98% to 1416.30 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 931 to 592 and 102 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1402 fell and 925 advanced, while 167 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 0.59% to 16.8975.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 1.14% or 19.05 to $1657.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.52% or 0.27 to hit $51.16 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.43% or 0.24 to trade at $55.53 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.04% to 71.891, while EUR/INR fell 0.16% to 77.9195.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 99.207.