Share market update: IT shares advance; Infibeam Avenues surges 9%

NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading higher in Wednesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Infibeam Avenues (up 9.39 per cent), Wipro (up 3.21 per cent), Tata Elxsi (up 3.01 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (up 1.59 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Tata Consultancy Services (up 0.73 per cent), Mindtree (up 0.29 per cent) and NIIT Technologies (up 0.13 per cent) too were trading in the green.


The Nifty IT index was trading 0.69 per cent up at 15,772.15 around 12:19 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 56.70 points at 11,044.15 while the BSE Sensex was up 169.48 points at 36,612.02.

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

Shares of Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, SAIL, YES Bank, Wipro, ITC, Tata Motors, SBI and BEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.