NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading lower in Thursday's morning session.Shares of HCL Technologies (down 1.23 per cent), Tata Elxsi (down 1.06 per cent) and Oracle Financial Services Software (down 1.04 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
Wipro (down 0.91 per cent) NIIT Technologies (down 0.74 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (down 0.23 per cent) too were trading with losses.The Nifty IT index was trading 0.16 per cent down at 15,319.05 around 10:33 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 0.80 points at 11,340.90 while the BSE Sensex was up 21.29 points at 37,773.46.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 30 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, SAIL, BEL, Bank of Baroda, SBI, Indian Oil Corp and RIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.