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

Shares of Mindtree (up 4.45 per cent) , Tata Elxsi (up 1.71 per cent) , Wipro (up 1.56 per cent) and NIIT Technologies (up 1.29 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Infosys (up 0.87 per cent) , Tech Mahindra (up 0.84 per cent) , Oracle Financial Services Software (up 0.71 per cent) and HCL Technologies (up 0.55 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty IT index was trading 0.99 per cent up at 15,668.85 around 10:10 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 6 points at 10,954.25 while the BSE Sensex was up 41.70 points at 37,018.55.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 23 were trading in the green, while 27 were in the red.