Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Capital Goods, Auto and IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 lost 0.22%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.17%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (NS:HLL), which rose 2.62% or 20.75 points to trade at 811.95 at the close. Meanwhile, Housing Development Finance Corp. (NS:HDFC) added 2.33% or 27.80 points to end at 1218.95 and Reliance Industries Ltd (NS:RELI) was up 1.46% or 13.95 points to 967.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bosch Ltd (NS:BOSH), which fell 3.04% or 578.30 points to trade at 18435.75 at the close. Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (NS:APSE) declined 2.26% or 6.25 points to end at 270.25 and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (NS:MRTI) was down 2.03% or 96.35 points to 4639.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which rose 2.42% to 811.40, Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which was up 2.09% to settle at 1218.70 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which gained 1.67% to close at 968.00.
The worst performers were Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which was down 2.05% to 4639.95 in late trade, Larsen & Toubro Limited (BO:LART) which lost 1.94% to settle at 1342.35 and Bajaj Auto Limited (BO:BAJA) which was down 1.90% to 2475.15 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 812 to 641 and 13 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 393 rose and 392 declined, while 13 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 4.86% to 16.2450.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.66% or 7.00 to $1073.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.80% or 0.34 to hit $42.09 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.80% or 0.36 to trade at $45.19 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.03% to 66.376, while EUR/INR rose 0.09% to 70.6830.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.17% at 99.66.