Share market update: IT shares advance; Infosys up 2%

NEW DELHI: IT shares advanced with the Nifty IT index trading higher in Monday's morning trading session.

Shares of Infosys (up 2.20 per cent) , MindTree (up 1.81 per cent) , NIIT Technologies (up 1.65 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (up 1.54 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Oracle Financial Services Software (up 1.43 per cent) , Tata Consultancy Services (up 1.32 per cent) and HCL Technologies (up 1.17 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty IT index was trading 1.12 per cent up at 15,060.30 around 10:52 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 69.70 points at 10,976.65 while the BSE Sensex was up 281.82 points at 36668.43.

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

Shares of Sun Pharma, YES Bank, RIL, Wipro, Larsen & Toubro, Ashok Leyland, L&T Fin Holding, NTPC and Infosys were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
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