Stock market update: Nifty IT index advances 0.73%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty IT index closed on a positive note on Wednesday.

Shares of Oracle Financial Services Software (up 2.74 per cent), Larsen & Toubro Infotech (up 2.12 per cent), Tata Consultancy (up 1.27 per cent), Coforge (up 1.14 per cent) and Infosys (up 0.85 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

On the other hand, Wipro (down 0.3 per cent), MPhasis (down 0.25 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (down 0.02 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

The Nifty IT index closed 0.73 per cent up at 34083.95.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 10.05 points at 16634.65, while the BSE Sensex stood down 14.77 points at 55944.21.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 ended in the green, while 29 closed in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Zomato Ltd., PNB and NALCO were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Hind Rectifiers, Saksoft Ltd, Linde India, HAL and Precision Wires hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Transwind Infrastruc, IMP Powers Ltd, Grand Foundry, CarTrade Tech Ltd. and AmaraRaja Batteries hit their fresh 52-week lows.

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