Stock market update: Nifty IT index falls 0.16%
Shares of Persistent Systems Ltd.(up 0.53 per cent), Coforge Ltd.(up 0.25 per cent), L&T Technology Services Ltd.(up 0.19 per cent), HCL Technologies Ltd.(up 0.02 per cent) and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(up 0.01 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, MphasiS Ltd.(down 1.82 per cent), Wipro Ltd.(down 0.59 per cent), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(down 0.44 per cent), LTIMindtree Ltd.(down 0.34 per cent) and Infosys Ltd.(down 0.09 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty IT index closed 0.16 per cent down at 32312.3.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 36.15 points at 19611.05, while the BSE Sensex stood up 100.26 points at 65880.52.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 ended in the green, while 20 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Reliance Power, JP Power, Indian Railway Fin and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Ind-Swift Labs, Fidel Softech, Udayshivakumar Infra, FACT and Orient Paper hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Bombay Metrics Suppl, SS Infrastructure, Penta Gold, Redtape L and PowerGrid Infa InvIT hit their fresh 52-week lows.
