While Nifty IT index traded 2.675% higher on Friday, BSE IT - Software index gained 2.58% during today's session

\"We resume coverage of Indian IT with a strong positive outlook,\" Goldman Sachs said in its report and gave a 'buy' rating to IT majors like Infosys, Mindtree, TCS, Tech Mahindra & Mphasis. The brokerage house gave a 'sell' on Wipro and a 'neutral' on HCL Tech and L&T Infotech

Nifty IT was followed by Nifty Pharma, which closed 2% higher, followed by a 1.3% rise in the metal index. All the sectoral indices closed in the green territory today

India Stock Market Highlights Today: During the session, Sensex touched a lifetime high of 45,148 and Nifty hit an all-time high of 13,280

Following the announcement, Mindtree stock touched an intraday high of Rs 1,405 on BSE, rising 3.63% against the last closing of Rs 1355.75. The stock opened at Rs 1380.45 and also touched an intraday low of Rs 1,361.80 today

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Tata Steel, followed by Maruti, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finance, HDFC twins and TCS were among the top gainers on Sensex pack today. On the other hand, Infosys, HCL Tech, HUL and Asian Paints were the laggards

Sectorally, barring IT and media, all the other indices closed bullish today, with over 3% gains registered in metal and around 1.5-2% gain in banking, realty, pharma and financial indices

The company board announced an interim dividend of Rs 4 per share, HCL Technologies said in a regulatory filing. Dollar revenue for the quarter came in at $2,507 million

SBI Cards shares have rallied 85.48 per cent to hit record high of Rs 918.60 compared to 52-week low of Rs 495.25 touched on May 22, 2020

Share price of  Tech Mahindra rose 1.97% to Rs 828.15 against previous close of Rs 812.20 on BSE

The highly volatile stock today touched an intraday high of Rs 383.4, rising 4.67% as against the previous close of Rs 366.30 on BSE. The stock also touched an intraday high and low of Rs 385 and Rs 370, respectively

Mindtree stock fell up to 11.44% to Rs 1264 against  previous close of Rs 1427 on BSE

Rising COVID-19 cases in eurozone and fresh round of lockdown in many countries weighed on investors' sentiment, analysts suggested. Moreover, sentiments stayed muted as RBI is set to release its weekly FX reserves figures today

Gold, Silver prices today: Gold and silver prices in the commodity market have been hitting new highs recently as traders shunned risk and sought safe havens during coronavirus crisis

Blue Star share rose 5.18% to Rs 644 against previous close of Rs 613 on BSE

India Stock Market Highlights Today: IndusInd Bank, Tata Steel, Infosys, ONGC, BPCL, Cipla, Kotak Bank, NTPC and Bharti Airtel were among prominent gainers. On the other hand, Asian Paints, Sun Pharma, Nestle, RIL, M&M, HCL Tech were among the top losers.

Stocks to watch today on October 16: RIL, Bharti Airtel, Mindtree, RITES, AstraZeneca Pharma, Tech Mahindra among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Friday's trading session

Mindtree's operating margins saw further improvement at 19.6 per cent in September quarter, an expansion of 140 basis points over the previous quarter

Mindtree on Thursday reported a 87.9 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 253.7 crore for the second quarter of FY21 as against Rs 135 crore in the corresponding period last year

All sectors fell heavily today, with IT and banking indices dropping nearly 3% each, followed by 2% fall in realty and pharma shares and over 1% decline in auto and FMCG stocks