Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Real Estate and Public Sector Undertakings sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.02%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK), which rose 6.73% or 19.50 points to trade at 309.30 at the close. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NS:HPCL) added 3.37% or 10.00 points to end at 307.00 and Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) was up 2.13% or 633.15 points to 30427.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM), which lost 2.29% or 20.30 points to trade at 865.30 in late trade. Larsen & Toubro Ltd (NS:LART) declined 1.75% or 24.25 points to end at 1364.90 and Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) shed 1.48% or 17.45 points to 1165.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which rose 6.86% to 309.25, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 1.42% to settle at 250.00 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which gained 1.18% to close at 541.25.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 2.26% to 865.60 in late trade, IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which lost 1.78% to settle at 1851.25 and Larsen & Toubro Ltd (BO:LART) which was down 1.70% to 1364.85 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 919 to 674 and 47 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1471 fell and 1134 advanced, while 126 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.14% to 14.0550.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.32% or 4.20 to $1309.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.30% or 0.92 to hit $69.81 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.02% or 0.78 to trade at $75.39 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.09% to 67.065, while EUR/INR fell 0.48% to 79.6660.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 92.90.