NEW DELHI: As many as 27 stocks including Reliance Industries, Bajaj Finance, Berger Paints, Britannia Industries, Garware Wall Rope and HDFC Bank hit 52-week highs on NSE on Thursday.HEG, Hindustan Unilever, Jubilant Foodworks, Kotak Mahindra Bank, KPIT Technologies, Larsen Toubro Infotech, Marico, Mphasis, Procter Gamble Hygiene and Health Care, Polaris Consulting Services and YES Bank also featured among the stocks that touched 52-week highs on NSE.Equity benchmarks Sensex scaled all-time high of 36,699.53 and Nifty50 topped the psychologically important level of 11,000 on Thursday owing to buying in oil gas, bank, financial and FMCG amid firm Asian cues.
Optimism around healthy corporate earnings, a fall in the global crude oil prices and recovering Indian rupee hemmed up together to keep the market up.The Sensex closed at a record peak of 36,548, up by 282 points, or 0.78 per cent.
As many as 17 stocks remained in the green in the index, compared with 14 stocks that settled in the red.The Nifty finished day's trading at 11,023, up by 75 points, or 0.68 per cent, with 28 stocks advancing and 22 stocks declining.Reliance Industries, BPCL, Bajaj Finance, Wipro and Bajaj Finserv finished Thursday's session as the top gainers in the Nifty index.