Stock market update: Nifty IT index advances 0.63%
ADVERTISEMENT Shares of Wipro Ltd.(up 2.1 per cent), Tech Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.84 per cent), LTIMindtree Ltd.(up 1.46 per cent), Infosys Ltd.(up 1.41 per cent) and Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd.(up 0.46 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Coforge Ltd.(down 0.61 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.(down 0.6 per cent), MphasiS Ltd.(down 0.28 per cent) and HCL Technologies Ltd.(down 0.23 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty IT index closed 0.63 per cent up at 37660.75. Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 16.25 points at 25212.05, while the BSE Sensex stood up 63.57 points at 82634.48. Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 19 ended in the green, while 27 closed in the red.
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Shares of Vodafone Idea, JP Power, Network18 Media, Ola Electric Mobilit and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Deccan Cements, Magellanic Cloud, Fischer Chemic, Bluspring Enterprises Ltd. and Manaksia Coated hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Stampede Cap(DVR), LCC Infotech, Vipul Ltd, HDB Financial Servic and Shriram EPC(PP)hit their fresh 52-week lows.
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