Stock market update: Nifty IT index falls 0.02%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty IT index closed on a negative note on Monday.

Shares of HCL Technologies(up 0.87 per cent), L&T Technology(up 0.75 per cent), Tata Consultancy(up 0.28 per cent) and Infosys(up 0.17 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

On the other hand, Coforge(down 1.23 per cent), Mindtree(down 0.99 per cent), Wipro(down 0.94 per cent), Larsen & Toubro Infotech(down 0.51 per cent) and Tech Mahindra(down 0.15 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

The Nifty IT index closed 0.02 per cent down at 29967.7.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 127.6 points at 17525.1, while the BSE Sensex stood up 465.14 points at 58853.07.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 ended in the green, while 17 closed in the red.

Shares of Zomato Ltd., , JP Power, and were among the most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of Ltd., Cool Caps Industries Ltd., , and hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while , , , and hit their fresh 52-week lows.