Indices: Stock market update: Nifty IT index advances 0.98%

NEW DELHI: The Nifty IT index closed on a constructive word on Thursday.

Shares of MPhasis(up 2.79 per cent), L&T Know-how(up 1.81 per cent), Mindtree(up 1.68 per cent), Coforge(up 1.48 per cent) and Larsen & Toubro Infotech(up 1.29 per cent) ended the day as prime gainers within the pack.

Then again, HCL Applied sciences(down 0.15 per cent) completed as the highest losers of the day.

The Nifty IT index closed 0.98 per cent up at 29761.55.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended up 121.85 factors at 16478.1, whereas the BSE Sensex stood up 427.79 factors at 55320.28.

Among the many 50 shares within the Nifty index, 36 ended within the inexperienced, whereas 14 closed within the pink.

Shares of , , , Ltd. and had been among the many most traded shares on the NSE.

Shares of

, International Training, , KPI International Infra and hit their contemporary 52-week highs in at the moment’s commerce, whereas , Krishna Defence and Allied Industries Ltd., , Akash Infra-Proj and hit their contemporary 52-week lows.