Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Technology and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.56%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which rose 3.05% or 128.65 points to trade at 4,348.00 at the close. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL) added 1.65% or 36.20 points to end at 2,230.25 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) was up 1.54% or 4.30 points to 284.15 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY), which lost 3.61% or 52.95 points to trade at 1,415.20 in late trade. LTIMindtree Ltd (NS:LTIM) declined 3.05% or 146.65 points to end at 4,668.50 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) shed 2.97% or 45.70 points to 1,494.20.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which rose 1.66% to 2,231.00, Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which was up 1.40% to settle at 3,652.00 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which gained 1.18% to close at 1,512.65.
The worst performers were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 3.58% to 1,415.80 in late trade, LTIMindtree Ltd (BO:LTIM) which lost 3.06% to settle at 4,666.00 and IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which was down 3.01% to 1,492.50 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1373 to 795 and 45 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2211 rose and 1464 declined, while 107 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.18% to 12.61.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.13% or 3.15 to $2,386.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.32% or 0.27 to hit $85.14 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.26% or 0.23 to trade at $89.87 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.12% to 83.61, while EUR/INR rose 0.18% to 88.85.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 106.07.