In choppy trade on Tuesday, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex ended with a moderate loss of 3.67 points as market participants indulged in booking profits a day after the market jumped 6.4 per cent, its biggest one-day surge in seven months.

The Sensex, which gained nearly 731 points in the previous day's trading, moved between 12,197.88 and 11,985.88 before ending with a small loss of 3.67 points at 12,131.08.