Stock market update: Nifty IT index falls 0.13% in a weak market
L&T Technology Services Ltd.(up 0.77 per cent), Wipro Ltd.(up 0.29 per cent), MphasiS Ltd.(up 0.23 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(up 0.08 per cent) and Tech Mahindra Ltd.(up 0.06 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Coforge Ltd.(down 1.43 per cent), Infosys Ltd.(down 0.47 per cent), Persistent Systems Ltd.(down 0.32 per cent), HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 0.12 per cent) and LTIMindtree Ltd.(down 0.01 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty IT index was down 0.13 per cent at 32271.1 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 25.5 points at 19585.55, while the BSE Sensex was down 97.56 points at 65782.96.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 19 were trading in the green, while 30 were in the red.
Shares of JP Power, Indian Railway Fin, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank and Zomato were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Responsive Ind., Usha Martin, Cochin Shipyard, IOL Chemicals and Onward Tech hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Penta Gold, Bombay Metrics Suppl, Redtape L, Atam Valves and Pyramid Technoplast hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
