Oil futures rose in early trading on Tuesday as the potential for more sanctions following alleged war crimes by Russian troops in Ukraine added to concerns about supply disruptions, while Iran nuclear talks stalled. Brent crude futures were up $1.58, or 1.5%, to $109.11 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures were up $1.61, or 1.6%, to $104.89 a barrel at 0028 GMT.

Private equity firm Carlyle Group will sell its entire 3 per cent stake in SBI Card and Payment Services for about Rs 2,550 crore through a block trade.

Interest rates are more favourable today than in earlier years. Banks have an option to invest in priority sector lending certificates, to meet the PSL requirements, says Parekh

Shares of Twitter surged 27.1% after Tesla Inc Chief Executive Musk revealed a 9.2% stake in the micro-blogging site, making him its largest shareholder. Shares of other social media companies also rose.

In the last trading session, the yellow metal had closed at Rs 51,533 per 10 grams.

AHVF II Holdings Singapore II Pte. Ltd will buy certain compulsorily convertible preference shares of Hero FinCorp Ltd.

It noted that recently, the central bank did not allow Axis Bank to directly own over 10 per cent in Max Life, and ICICI Bank was asked to bring down shareholding in ICICI Lombard to less than 30 per cent.

Among the global crypto investors, 41 per cent purchased crypto for the first time in 2021. More than half of the crypto investors, about 54 per cent of them, started their journey in 2021, said the report.

Foreign investors- both FDI and FPI combined- took back home a record net $13.7 billion as profits from their investments in India during December 21 quarter even as fresh FDI investments were just about $ 5 billion and FPIs pulled out their investments in India, an analysis of latest balance of payments numbers indicates.

Tuesday is likely to see the levels of 18,100 and 18,145 acting as potential resistance points. The supports will come in at 18,000 and 17,880.