Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Auto, Public Sector Undertakings and Real Estate sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.04%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Asian Paints Ltd. (NS:ASPN), which rose 3.72% or 90.00 points to trade at 2506.85 at the close. Meanwhile, SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:SBIL) added 3.45% or 29.60 points to end at 888.70 and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:HDFL) was up 3.05% or 20.85 points to 704.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (NS:IOC), which fell 6.15% or 6.40 points to trade at 97.70 at the close. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (NS:MAHM) declined 3.60% or 33.40 points to end at 895.00 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO) was down 3.24% or 10.90 points to 325.05.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Asian Paints Ltd. (BO:ASPN) which rose 3.66% to 2506.00, Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (BO:ONGC) which was up 1.40% to settle at 101.10 and Titan Company Ltd (BO:TITN) which gained 1.31% to close at 1561.25.
The worst performers were Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (BO:MAHM) which was down 3.04% to 900.00 in late trade, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which lost 1.99% to settle at 622.00 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which was down 1.76% to 229.00 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1000 to 658 and 55 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1617 fell and 1248 advanced, while 179 ended unchanged.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 1.30% to 24.2700.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.64% or 11.70 to $1845.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.31% or 0.18 to hit $58.15 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.16% or 0.10 to trade at $60.80 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.06% to 72.888, while EUR/INR rose 0.45% to 88.2630.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.43% at 90.550.