Top gainers and losers of Friday's session

NEW DELHI: Domestic equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty50 closed in the positive territory on Friday.

The Nifty50 index closed Friday's session 29 points up at 10,453, while BSE Sensex settled 112 points up at 33,686.

In the Nifty50 index, State Bank of India, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, Tata Motors, Larsen & Toubro, IndusInd Bank and YES Bank and Axis Bank remained the top gainers.

On the contrary, Power Grid Corporation of India, Sun Pharma, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Coal India, GAIL, Lupin, Hero MotoCorp, Tech Mahindra and Bharti Infratel settled among the top losers in the Nifty50 index.

At the sectoral front, Nifty PSU Bank index, with a gain of 3 per cent, stood at the top. Shares of Punjab National Bank, Bank of India and Indian Bank climbed over 4 per cent.

Nifty Media index gained over 2 per cent.

Nifty Pharma, metal, IT and FMCG indices settled in the red on Friday.

Nifty Pharma index declined over 1 per cent, with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Cadila, Divi's Lab, Sun Pharma and Lupin as the top losers.

Coal India, MOIL, Jindal Stainless (Hisar), NMDC and Vedanta were among the metal stocks that traded in the red.

Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech and Tata Elxsi were among the IT stocks that settled in the red on Friday.

FMCG players Emami, Godrej Industries, Godrej Consumer Products, Colgate Palmolive (India), Jubilant Foodworks and Dabur ended Friday's session in the negative zone.

As much as 111 stocks, including Emami Infrastructure, Godrej Properties, Hindustan Copper and Hindustan Oil Exploration Company hit fresh 52-week highs on NSE on Friday.

However, Shaival Reality, TV Vision, Akash Infra-Projects, Sri Adhikari, Arcotech Ltd, Sintex Plastics Technology, DS Kulkarni Dev and Stampede Cap were among those 14 stocks that touched their new 52-week lows on NSE.

Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 21 settled in the green, while 28 in the red on Friday.