Top Nifty gainers and losers of Friday's session

NEW DELHI: Sustained buying in bank, financial, metal, FMCG, IT and oil amid firm global cues gave 350 points fillip to Sensex on Friday.

The equity benchmark 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.

Among the sectors, only Nifty Pharma and realty closed in the red. Nifty Metal emerged as the top gainer among sectoral indices.

As many as 17 stocks hit fresh 52-week highs on NSE, compared with 154 stocks that hit fresh 52-week lows.