Among the components of the BSE Information Technology index, Sasken Technologies Ltd (up 3.73%), Black Box Ltd (up 2.83%),Mastek Ltd (up 1.44%),Cigniti Technologies Ltd (up 1.13%),Infosys Ltd (up 1.08%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were Zensar Technologies Ltd (up 0.9%), HCL Technologies Ltd (up 0.81%), Persistent Systems Ltd (up 0.81%), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (up 0.74%), and Expleo Solutions Ltd (up 0.73%).
On the other hand, AXISCADES Technologies Ltd (down 4.69%), Nucleus Software Exports Ltd (down 3.75%), and Magellanic Cloud Ltd (down 2.89%) turned lower.
At 09:40 IST, the BSE SmallCap was down 709.37 or 1.35% at 51781.57.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was down 180.14 points or 1.17% at 15162.61.
The Nifty 50 index was down 234.9 points or 1% at 23283.6.
The BSE Sensex index was down 755.62 points or 0.97% at 76822.76.
On BSE,883 shares were trading in green, 2223 were trading in red and 129 were unchanged.
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