NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading in the negative zone in Tuesday's morning session.Shares of HCL Technologies (down 2.15 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (down 1.83 per cent), Infosys (down 1.03 per cent) and Tata Elxsi (down 0.98 per cent) were the top losers in the index.Mindtree (down 0.66 per cent), Tech Mahindra (down 0.20 per cent), Oracle Financial Services Software (down 0.17 per cent) and NIIT Technologies (down 0.16 per cent) too were trading with losses.
The Nifty IT index was trading 1.12 per cent down at 16,176.80 around 10:04 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 28.50 points at 12,060.05 while the BSE Sensex was down 73.05 points at 40,194.57.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 21 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.
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