{"id":70048,"date":"2026-02-18T04:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/18\/indian-shares-subdued-as-it-stocks-slump-on-ai-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:43:34","slug":"indian-shares-subdued-as-it-stocks-slump-on-ai-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/18\/indian-shares-subdued-as-it-stocks-slump-on-ai-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Shares Subdued As IT Stocks Slump On AI Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares were subdued on Wednesday, with IT stocks coming under heavy selling pressure on concerns over artificial intelligence impacting the IT sector&#8217;s <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> model. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark BSE Sensex slipped 190 points, or 0.2 percent, to 83,260 while the broader NSE Nifty index was down 58 points, or 0.2 percent, at 25,667.<\/p>\n<p>Infosys lost 2.4 percent after introducing its AI-first value framework to help enterprises unlock AI value at scale. Peers TCS, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies were down 1-2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Hexaware Technologies slumped 4.4 percent after launching an open version of RapidX.<br \/>Eternal fell about 1 percent after it expanded partnership with OpenAI to boost artificial intelligence in Zomato, Blinkit, District and Hyperpure.<\/p>\n<p>Adani Enterprises declined 1.4 percent after its subsidiary, Adani Road Transport, finalized the acquisition of a 49 percent stake in Sree Vishwa Varadhi Private Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Dilip Buildcon jumped more than 3 percent on winning a Rs. 702 crore project from Narmada Water Resources, Water Supply &amp; Kalpasar Department, Government of Gujarat. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Indian Shares Subdued As IT Stocks Slump On AI Concerns<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-18 04:43:34<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares were subdued on Wednesday, with IT stocks coming under heavy selling pressure on concerns over artificial intelligence impacting the IT sector&#8217;s business model. The benchmark BSE Sensex slipped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asian-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}