India stocks lower at close of trade; Nifty 50 down 0.52%

Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in NSE, the lost 0.52%, while the index lost 0.46%.

The best performers of the session on the were Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (NS:), which rose 2.49% or 11.65 points to trade at 479.40 at the close. Meanwhile, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NS:) added 1.57% or 37.60 points to end at 2433.40 and Bajaj Finance Ltd (NS:) was up 1.24% or 51.60 points to 4215.95 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Vedanta Ltd (NS:), which fell 4.53% or 6.75 points to trade at 142.10 at the close. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:) declined 4.37% or 22.50 points to end at 491.90 and Tata Motors Ltd (NS:) was down 3.18% or 5.80 points to 176.40.

The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (BO:) which rose 1.53% to 2432.40, Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:) which was up 1.14% to settle at 4213.05 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:) which gained 0.96% to close at 452.65.

The worst performers were Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:) which was down 4.55% to 490.90 in late trade, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which lost 3.49% to settle at 446.25 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:) which was down 2.34% to 1471.35 at the close.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1008 to 504 and 105 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1471 fell and 940 advanced, while 156 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.71% to 17.2975 a new 3-months high.

Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.04% or 0.65 to $1578.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.15% or 0.08 to hit $53.06 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.41% or 0.24 to trade at $58.34 a barrel.

USD/INR was down 0.16% to 71.325, while EUR/INR fell 0.18% to 78.5750.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 97.805.

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