Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Capital Goods and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.46%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.60%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN), which rose 12.44% or 9.90 points to trade at 89.50 at the close. NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) added 5.94% or 5.15 points to end at 91.80 and ITC Ltd (NS:ITC) was up 4.45% or 7.05 points to 165.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI), which lost 5.73% or 90.35 points to trade at 1486.45 in late trade. GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) declined 3.69% or 3.40 points to end at 88.65 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) shed 2.97% or 46.60 points to 1523.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which rose 5.71% to 91.60, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was up 4.23% to settle at 558.80 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which gained 4.17% to close at 165.05.
The worst performers were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 6.12% to 1480.25 in late trade, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which lost 2.95% to settle at 1523.00 and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 2.56% to 1158.60 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 947 to 548 and 84 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1307 fell and 861 advanced, while 162 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.44% to 38.2050.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.51% or 8.60 to $1706.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 5.47% or 1.32 to hit $25.46 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 3.00% or 0.89 to trade at $30.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.62% to 75.388, while EUR/INR fell 0.43% to 81.6185.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.19% at 100.078.