NEW DELHI: Shares of Infosys (up 1.17 per cent), HCL Technologies (up 1.08 per cent) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (up 0.36 per cent) were trading with gains in Friday's session in an otherwise weak market.Gains in these heavyweights lifted the sectoral index.
However, shares of Infibeam Avenues (down 5.64 per cent), NIIT Technologies (down 3.11 per cent) and Tata Elxsi (down 1.26 per cent) were down at that time, capping the gains of the sectoral index.The Nifty IT index was trading 0.43 per cent up at 15,508 around 10:40 am.
Tech Mahindra (down 0.91 per cent), Mindtree (down 0.31 per cent) and Wipro (down 0.11 per cent), too, were in the red.
Equity market benchmarks Sensex and Nifty extended their losing streak to the third consecutive session on Friday amid concerns over rupee's continuous fall against the US dollar and surging global crude oil prices.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 153 points at 10,447, while the BSE Sensex was 384 points down at 34,785.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 15 were trading in the green, while 35 were in the red.
Titan Company, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Sun Pharma, Bharti Infratel and IndusInd Bank were among the top gainers in the Nifty index.HPCL, BPCL, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC and GAIL (India) were among the top losers in the Nifty pack of stocks.