BSE IT - Price Movement

Keeping track of the changing trends in Indian Economy, BSE launched new sectoral index named IT Index. Stocks capturing 90% market capitalization from the IT sector are listed on the IT Index. Indices are calculated and displayed on the BOLT system on the real time basis. Like all the similar indices 1998-99 is chosen as the base year, and the base value was fixed at 1000 points in order to keep the index comparable with other similar indices.