Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Public Sector Undertakings, Oil & Gas and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.61%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.65%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI), which rose 7.29% or 547.25 points to trade at 8050.35 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) added 3.44% or 31.90 points to end at 960.30 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was up 2.69% or 13.60 points to 519.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Shree Cements Ltd. (NS:SHCM), which lost 3.19% or 927.20 points to trade at 28150.00 in late trade. Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) declined 2.32% or 59.90 points to end at 2517.90 and Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:TACN) shed 2.31% or 19.70 points to 832.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which rose 7.31% to 8049.65, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was up 3.44% to settle at 960.30 and Tech Mahindra Ltd (BO:TEML) which gained 1.56% to close at 1601.05.
The worst performers were Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which was down 2.58% to 2512.10 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 2.31% to settle at 495.00 and UltraTech Cement Ltd (BO:ULTC) which was down 2.20% to 7869.75 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 942 to 799 and 60 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1668 fell and 1567 advanced, while 138 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 1.75% to 15.1950.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.53% or 9.90 to $1876.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.40% or 0.32 to hit $80.07 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.48% or 0.39 to trade at $82.44 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.00% to 74.377, while EUR/INR fell 0.09% to 84.4700.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 95.582.