Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Green Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 fell 1.04%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index lost 1.02%.
The best performers of the session on the Nifty 50 were State Bank Of India (NS:SBI), which rose 1.95% or 3.55 points to trade at 185.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Bank Of Baroda (NS:BOB) added 1.60% or 2.25 points to end at 143.20 and TATA STEEL LIMITED (NS:TISC) was up 1.26% or 3.75 points to 300.45 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Lupin Ltd (NS:LUPN), which fell 7.83% or 146.30 points to trade at 1722.90 at the close. Housing Development Finance Corp. (NS:HDFC) declined 4.09% or 47.35 points to end at 1111.35 and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (NS:ZEE) was down 3.55% or 14.20 points to 386.30.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which rose 1.84% to 185.25, TATA STEEL LIMITED (BO:TISC) which was up 1.18% to settle at 299.80 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which gained 0.81% to close at 343.65.
The worst performers were Housing Development Finance Corp. (BO:HDFC) which was down 3.63% to 1114.10 in late trade, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (BO:REDY) which lost 2.96% to settle at 3138.65 and Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which was down 2.48% to 524.70 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 959 to 454 and 59 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 538 fell and 274 advanced, while 31 ended unchanged.
The India Vix, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.89% to 17.5975.
Gold for April delivery was down 0.87% or 10.80 to $1234.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 2.64% or 0.98 to hit $36.20 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 2.63% or 1.04 to trade at $38.49 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.40% to 67.406, while EUR/INR rose 0.23% to 74.7070.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 96.83.