Share market update: IT shares in the green; TCS\, Infosys among top gainers

NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading in the green with the Nifty IT index up 0.86 per cent at 14,329.70 on Monday.

Shares of Tata Consultancy Services (up 1.86 per cent), Wipro (up 1.54 per cent), Infosys (up 1.15 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (up 0.95 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Oracle Financial Services Software (up 0.82 per cent), NIIT Technologies (up 0.39 per cent) and MindTree (up 0.11 per cent) too were trading with gains.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 29.75 points at 10,724.25 while the BSE Sensex was down 75.92 points at 35,666.15.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 16 were trading in the green, while 33 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, BHEL, Vodafone Idea, Tata Motors, SBI, Indian Oil Corp, Vedanta, Infosys, BEL and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.