NEW DELHI: A majority of IT stocks including Tata Consultancy Services (down 1.51 per cent), Mindtree (down 1.26 per cent) and KPIT Technologies (down 0.99 per cent) were trading in the negative territory in afternoon trade on Tuesday amid fresh rise in Indian rupee.The rupee moved slightly up by 10 paise during Tuesday's trade.The Nifty IT index was trading 0.22 per cent down at 13,454 around 01:50 pm.
Tech Mahindra (down 0.58 per cent), Infibeam Incorporation (down 0.24 per cent), Oracle Financial Services Software (down 0.17 per cent) and Wipro (down 0.13 per cent) were also among the losers in the index.However, shares of HCL Technologies (up 1.07 per cent), Infosys (up 0.91 per cent) and Tata Elxsi (up 0.44 per cent) were trading with gains.
Equity benchmarks were up with tepid gains on buying in select auto, metal, pharma and bank stocks.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 15 points at 10,532, while the BSE Sensex was up 42 points at 34,659.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.
UltraTech Cement, Indian Oil Corporation, Bharti Infratel and HPCL were among the top losers in the Nifty index.