Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, IT and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 0.02%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index fell 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Punjab National Bank (NS:PNBK), which rose 8.31% or 6.90 points to trade at 89.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) added 2.99% or 14.00 points to end at 482.70 and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (NS:APSE) was up 2.96% or 6.00 points to 208.60 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were UltraTech Cement Ltd (NS:ULTC), which fell 2.24% or 76.00 points to trade at 3321.90 at the close. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) declined 1.77% or 8.20 points to end at 455.55 and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:BPCL) was down 1.73% or 17.50 points to 991.15.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which rose 2.77% to 482.20, State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was up 2.65% to settle at 207.55 and ITC Ltd (BO:ITC) which gained 0.96% to close at 353.30.
The worst performers were Bajaj Auto Limited (BO:BAJA) which was down 1.00% to 2561.20 in late trade, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (BO:MRTI) which lost 0.93% to settle at 4096.90 and Hero MotoCorp Limited (BO:HROM) which was down 0.91% to 3011.55 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 914 to 514 and 60 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 980 rose and 603 declined, while 51 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 3.66% to 17.1900 a new 1-month high.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.28% or 3.65 to $1283.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.35% or 0.66 to hit $48.22 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.31% or 0.66 to trade at $49.69 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.12% to 67.270, while EUR/INR fell 0.54% to 75.4670.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.46% at 94.85.