Stock market update: Nifty IT index advances 0.41% in an upbeat market

NEW DELHI: The Nifty IT index traded positive around 11:00AM(IST)on Monday in an upbeat market.

Persistent Systems(up 3.11 per cent), Wipro(up 1.9 per cent), LTIMindtree Ltd(up 0.71 per cent), Coforge(up 0.62 per cent) and HCL Technologies(up 0.58 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Tata Consultancy(down 0.41 per cent) and Infosys(down 0.32 per cent) were the top losers on the index.


The Nifty IT index was up 0.41 per cent at 26932.3 at the time of writing this report.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 12.6 points at 17636.65, while the BSE Sensex was up 49.28 points at 59704.34.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd., Vodafone Idea, Rail Vikas Nigam and Zomato Ltd. were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Viviana Power Tech Ltd., Nirman Agri Genetics, Ircon Intl., Rail Vikas Nigam and Ksolves India hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Gangotri Text, Omkar Speciality, BEML Land Assets, Parin Furniture and Brightcom Group hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.