New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Most IT stocks saw solid gains in morning trade on Tuesday, 13 October, with stocks such as TCS, HCL Tech, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, and Infosys, jumping up to 5%, driving the sectoral index Nifty IT higher by 3%.

Stocks such as Mphasis, LTM, Coforge, Persistent Systems, and Oracle Financial Services Software (OFSS) gained more than 1% each.

Around 9:35 AM, the Nifty IT index was 2.20% up with all components in the green. Equity benchmark Nifty 50 was about 0.60% up at 22,491 at that time.

A confluence of factors, including better-than-expected Q2 results of TCS and HCL Tech, a slowdown in AI trade, and the dollar's rise against the rupee, is driving the IT stocks higher.

The dollar index, which measures the greenbac...