Investing.com – India equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 1.19%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 1.20%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 3.84% or 152.40 points to trade at 4120.00 at the close. IndusInd Bank Ltd. (NS:INBK) added 2.70% or 12.20 points to end at 463.80 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) was up 1.93% or 9.45 points to 498.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK), which lost 3.75% or 13.50 points to trade at 346.30 in late trade. Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR) declined 3.69% or 8.35 points to end at 218.10 and GAIL Ltd (NS:GAIL) shed 3.68% or 3.85 points to 100.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were IndusInd Bank Ltd. (BO:INBK) which rose 2.67% to 463.70, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 1.90% to settle at 498.25 and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which gained 1.04% to close at 475.95.
The worst performers were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which was down 3.15% to 348.75 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 3.12% to settle at 566.50 and HDFC Bank Ltd (BO:HDBK) which was down 2.81% to 986.95 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 988 to 660 and 42 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1381 fell and 1058 advanced, while 155 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.88% to 30.2050.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.60% or 10.15 to $1715.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.94% or 0.74 to hit $37.45 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.67% or 0.68 to trade at $40.12 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.33% to 75.627, while EUR/INR rose 0.15% to 85.2465.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 96.877.