Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Real Estate, Banking and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 declined 0.27%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (NS:REDY), which rose 1.92% or 42.20 points to trade at 2236.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) added 1.74% or 7.35 points to end at 430.50 and NTPC Ltd (NS:NTPC) was up 1.60% or 2.60 points to 165.55 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Ambuja Cements Ltd. (NS:ABUJ), which fell 4.39% or 11.55 points to trade at 251.40 at the close. AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) declined 2.32% or 12.80 points to end at 538.40 and State Bank Of India (NS:SBI) was down 2.50% or 6.85 points to 267.60.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which rose 2.07% to 431.05, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:REDY) which was up 1.82% to settle at 2234.15 and Hero MotoCorp Ltd (BO:HROM) which gained 1.64% to close at 3598.25.
The worst performers were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which was down 2.68% to 537.50 in late trade, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which lost 2.53% to settle at 267.80 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 2.02% to 544.90 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1064 to 534 and 28 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1669 fell and 1000 advanced, while 139 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.66% to 13.9225.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.07% or 0.90 to $1333.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.23% or 0.15 to hit $63.76 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.10% or 0.07 to trade at $67.22 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.15% to 64.915, while EUR/INR rose 0.28% to 80.0010.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 89.77.