NEW DELHI: IT shares were trading in the negative zone in Friday's morning session. Shares of NIIT Technologies (down 5.45 per cent), Infosys (down 1.14 per cent), Infibeam Avenues (down 0.98 per cent) and Tech Mahindra (down 0.92 per cent) were the top losers in the index. HCL Technologies (down 0.68 per cent), MindTree (down 0.64 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services (down 0.54 per cent) and Tata Elxsi (down 0.20 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty IT index was trading 0.79 per cent down at 15,352.50 around 09:58 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 28.75 points at 11,223.40 while the BSE Sensex was down 90.24 points at 37,740.74.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 22 were trading in the green, while 28 were in the red.
Shares of Tata Motors, Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Bank of Baroda, Vedanta, Dish TV India, IDFC First Bank, PNB, Ashok Leyland and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.