Investing.com – India equities were mixed at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Capital Goods and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Banking, Metals and Consumer Durables sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 rose 0.02%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC), which rose 5.56% or 14.40 points to trade at 273.55 at the close. Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) added 1.55% or 54.95 points to end at 3,598.70 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was up 1.54% or 14.95 points to 987.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (NS:KTKM), which lost 1.47% or 25.65 points to trade at 1,720.00 in late trade. Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI) declined 1.27% or 57.50 points to end at 4,478.75 and Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN) shed 1.18% or 34.55 points to 2,903.00.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which rose 1.63% to 3,599.95, Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which was up 1.51% to settle at 986.50 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which gained 1.14% to close at 12,848.15.
The worst performers were Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (BO:KTKM) which was down 1.25% to 1,723.60 in late trade, Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which lost 1.22% to settle at 2,901.00 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 0.90% to 2,914.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1430 to 802 and 34 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2367 rose and 1345 declined, while 103 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 9.96% to 14.77 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.10% or 2.30 to $2,324.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.45% or 0.35 to hit $77.39 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.37% or 0.30 to trade at $81.33 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.05% to 83.56, while EUR/INR fell 0.15% to 89.77.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 104.86.