NEW DELHI: As many as 148 stocks including JK Cement, Kajaria Ceramics, NBCC (India), UltraTech Cement, Aditya Birla Capital, ACC, Bank of Baroda, Bharat Electronics and Dalmia Bharat hit 52-week lows on NSE on Friday.In a volatile session on Friday, domestic equity benchmarks settled in the positive territory on gains in bank, financial, FMCG and auto stocks amid mixed global cues.The BSE Sensex closed the day with a gain of 257 points, or 0.73 per cent, at 35,690, with 23 stocks advancing and 8 declining.
The Nifty50 settled 81 points, or 0.75 per cent, up at 10,822, with 35 stocks in the green and 15 in the red.All sectors on NSE closed with gains, bank, financial service, FMCG, pharma and PSU bank logging gains of over 1 per cent.Sun Pharma, surging over 4 per cent, led the pack of Nifty gainers.Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Mahindra Mahindra, Indiabulls Housing Finance and HDFC too finished the day among the top gainers in the Nifty index.On the other hand, HPCL, Reliance Industries, UPL, Coal India and Eicher Motors stood as the top losers in the Nifty index.