Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Metals, IT and Public Sector Undertakings sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.27%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK), which rose 8.09% or 39.15 points to trade at 523.15 at the close. Meanwhile, Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI) added 2.90% or 12.45 points to end at 442.15 and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (NS:ONGC) was up 2.41% or 4.50 points to 191.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were UPL Ltd (NS:UPLL), which fell 3.04% or 25.10 points to trade at 799.30 at the close. Vedanta Ltd (NS:VDAN) declined 2.67% or 9.10 points to end at 331.85 and Infosys Ltd (NS:INFY) was down 2.36% or 22.25 points to 921.85.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were AXIS Bank Ltd. (BO:AXBK) which rose 8.00% to 523.05, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was up 2.38% to settle at 191.10 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 0.98% to close at 497.65.
The worst performers were Infosys Ltd (BO:INFY) which was down 2.43% to 921.65 in late trade, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which lost 2.14% to settle at 1345.00 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which was down 2.11% to 703.65 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 814 to 771 and 21 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1378 rose and 1295 declined, while 159 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.70% to 12.4400.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.28% or 3.63 to $1274.07 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.18% or 0.10 to hit $54.05 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.12% or 0.07 to trade at $60.52 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.14% to 64.765, while EUR/INR fell 0.34% to 75.3026.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 94.53.