NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading lower in Tuesday's morning session.Shares of Tech Mahindra (down 1.81 per cent) , Infosys (down 1.76 per cent) , Tata Consultancy Services (down 0.87 per cent) and Wipro (down 0.80 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
Tata Elxsi (down 0.78 per cent) , NIIT Technologies (down 0.61 per cent) and MindTree (down 0.45 per cent) too were trading with losses.
The Nifty IT index was trading 0.98 per cent down at 15,265 around 10:09 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 34.60 points at 11,388.85 while the BSE Sensex was up 117.29 points at 37,926.20.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
Shares of BHEL, DLF, Indian Oil Corp, ONGC, Bank of Baroda, NTPC, Ashok Leyland, YES Bank and SBI were among the most traded shares on the NSE.