Stock market update: IT shares gain; Infibeam Avenues climbs 4%

NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading in the positive zone in Tuesday's morning session.

Shares of Infibeam Avenues (up 4.25 per cent), Tata Elxsi (up 2.16 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (up 1.65 per cent) and Infosys (up 1.47 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Tech Mahindra (up 0.87 per cent), Wipro (up 0.87 per cent), Oracle Financial Services Software (up 0.60 per cent) and Mindtree (up 0.08 per cent) too were trading higher.


The Nifty IT index was trading 1.09 per cent up at 15,726 around 10:28 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 5.35 points at 11,919.40 while the BSE Sensex was down 6.27 points at 39,677.02.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 27 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, PNB, ZEEL, NHPC, PC Jeweller, BHEL, Ashok Leyland, Motherson Sumi and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.