Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Real Estate, Power and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.29%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL), which rose 2.73% or 12.55 points to trade at 472.50 at the close. Tata Steel Ltd (NS:TISC) added 1.67% or 2.25 points to end at 137.15 and ITC Ltd (NS:ITC) was up 1.58% or 7.40 points to 475.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (NS:DIVI), which lost 2.11% or 82.60 points to trade at 3,827.00 in late trade. HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) declined 1.91% or 30.35 points to end at 1,557.85 and Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) shed 1.86% or 9.20 points to 485.40.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which rose 1.70% to 137.25, Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was up 1.54% to settle at 3,816.50 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which gained 1.13% to close at 10,200.00.
The worst performers were Wipro Ltd (BO:WIPR) which was down 1.93% to 485.00 in late trade, HCL Technologies Ltd (BO:HCLT) which lost 1.87% to settle at 1,558.00 and NTPC Ltd (BO:NTPC) which was down 1.84% to 311.55 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1477 to 663 and 29 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2406 fell and 1307 advanced, while 82 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.54% to 13.57.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.39% or 8.10 to $2,043.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.89% or 0.65 to hit $73.44 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 1.27% or 0.99 to trade at $79.14 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.31% to 83.11, while EUR/INR fell 0.29% to 90.46.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.80% at 102.97.