NEW DELHI: Shares of ILFS Transportation Networks (up 16.15 per cent), Rites (up 15.89 per cent) and Shriram EPC (up 13.67 per cent) surged up to 16 per cent on NSE on Friday, mirroring bullish market sentiment.Techno Electric Engineering Company (up 10.98 per cent), NACL Industries (up 10.36 per cent), Inox Wind (up 10.24 per cent), Orient Refractories (up 9.52 per cent), Prism Johnson (up 9.13 per cent), ITI (up 8.93 per cent) and LT Foods (up 8.22 per cent) jumped up to 10 per cent on NSE today.Earnings optimism boosted equity benchmarks Nifty and Sensex to record highs on Friday as the August series of derivatives contract registered a stellar opening.Sensex touched 37,368.62 and Nifty scaled 11,283.40, setting their new all-time highs.Factors such as hopes around better-than-expected earnings, strengthening rupee, easing crude oil prices, firm global cues and sustained capital inflow came together to launch bourses into the higher orbit.The equity barometer Sensex settled 352 points, or 0.95 per cent, up at 37,337, with 21 stocks advancing and 10 stocks declining.
The Nifty finished at 11,278, up by 111 points or 0.99 per cent, with 35 stocks in the green and 15 in the red.ITC, Indian Oil Corporation, Tata Motors, Hindalco Industries, Titan Company and HPCL emerged as the top gainers in the Nifty index on Friday.