Bharti Airtel, Asian Paints among most active stocks in value terms

Bharti Airtel, Asian Paints among most active stocks in value terms
Asian Paints, HPCL, Vedanta and BPCL remained the top gainers in the Nifty index.
NEW DELHI: PC Jeweller (Rs 2,018 crore), Bharti Airtel (Rs 896.36 crore) and Asian Paints (Rs 602.35 crore) remained the most active stocks in terms of value on NSE on Friday.

Titan Company (Rs 553.19 crore), ICICI Bank (Rs 516.69 crore), Rain Industries (Rs 511 crore), Sun Pharma (Rs 474.57 crore), Tata Consultancy Services (Rs 454.76 crore), Idea Cellular (Rs 420.47 crore) and Reliance Industries (Rs 395.87 crore) were the other stocks in the league, in that order.

The equity benchmark Sensex finished day's trading 290 points, or 0.82 per cent, up at 35,536. As many as 23 stocks settled with gains, while 8 incurred losses in the index.

The Nifty50 index closed 90 points, or 0.84 per cent, up at 10,807, with 38 stocks in the green and 12 in the red.

For the week, both Sensex and Nifty rose by 1.78 per cent.

Asian Paints, HPCL, Vedanta and BPCL remained the top gainers in the Nifty index.

Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma, Titan, Tata Motors and Hero MotoCorp remained the top losers in the Nifty pack.