Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Power, Banking and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.04%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Tata Power Co. Ltd (NS:TTPW), which rose 5.51% or 4.30 points to trade at 82.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) added 3.33% or 15.05 points to end at 467.40 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) was up 2.32% or 25.95 points to 1143.25 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (NS:PGRD), which fell 1.93% or 4.10 points to trade at 208.30 at the close. Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH) declined 1.92% or 547.20 points to end at 27917.40 and Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN) was down 1.67% or 18.85 points to 1112.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Tata Motors Ltd (BO:TAMO) which rose 3.28% to 467.15, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was up 1.60% to settle at 168.70 and Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which gained 1.54% to close at 943.80.
The worst performers were POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA (BO:PGRD) which was down 2.00% to 208.15 in late trade, Lupin Ltd (BO:LUPN) which lost 1.63% to settle at 1112.35 and AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 1.56% to 511.80 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 871 to 690 and 7 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1403 fell and 1189 advanced, while 154 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.28% to 10.6575.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.06% or 0.80 to $1247.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 2.14% or 0.95 to hit $43.48 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 2.11% or 0.99 to trade at $45.92 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.08% to 64.457, while EUR/INR fell 0.01% to 71.8930.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 97.29.