Mumbai: The recent sell-off in information technology (IT) stocks has reduced their influence on moves in the benchmark Nifty, ceding more power to banks, whose stake in the key index has strengthened to new highs. The free float weight of IT stocks in the benchmark Nifty had fallen to 8.7% on February 16 from 9.94 […]
Mumbai: Indian software services shares suffered another selloff on Thursday, with the Nifty IT index falling more than 5% for the second time in less than 10 days, as unexpectedly strong US jobs data for January further fueled existing concerns about AI’s impact on the sector. The NSE’s IT benchmark fell 5.5% to close at […]