Stock market update: Nifty IT index advances 0.21% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty IT index traded positive around 10:14AM(IST)on Wednesday in an upbeat market.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech(up 1.76 per cent), MPhasis(up 1.7 per cent), L&T Technology(up 0.74 per cent), Mindtree(up 0.6 per cent) and Tata Consultancy(up 0.41 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Coforge(down 1.27 per cent), Tech Mahindra(down 0.65 per cent), Wipro(down 0.25 per cent) and HCL Technologies(down 0.15 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

The Nifty IT index was up 0.21 per cent at 35235.4 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 32.2 points at 18300.6, while the BSE Sensex was up 92.23 points at 61442.49.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 were trading in the green, while 18 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, PNB, Vodafone Idea, Tata Power and Canara Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Transport Corp, Triveni Turbine, Goldiam Intnl, Mangalam Global Ent and Heritage Foods hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while D K Enterprises Global Ltd., Dynamic Services & Security Ltd., SREI Infra Fin, Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd. and Synergy Green Ind hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.

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