Indian IT sector stocks after declining for the most part of this year have been rallying strongly over the last few sessions. They extended their rally on Wednesday, with shares of Infosys, TCS, HCLTech, Wipro, Coforge and Tech Mahindra climbing as much as 5%, even as semiconductor stocks worldwide came under intense selling pressure amid mounting concerns over the scale of artificial intelligence-related spending by major technology companies.

India’s IT services sector has fallen 25% year-to-date, with the top four IT majors—TCS, Infosys, HCLTech and Wipro—down around 35-50 per cent from their past two-year peaks.

Infosys and TCS stocks rose 2-3% as easing US Fed rate-hike fears boosted tech shares, with the Nifty IT index gaining over 2% on reduced inflation concerns.