NEW DELHI: Around 15 stocks rose to touch their 52-week highs on NSE in Friday's session ahead of Union Budget scheduled to be announced today.Among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs were ABB India, Bajaj Finserv, Cybertech Systems, HDFC, Indiamart Intermesh and Mandhana Industries.
Power Grid, Refex Industries, Siemens and UPL also featured among the stocks that touched their 52-week highs on NSE.Benchmark NSE Nifty index was trading 6.80 points up at 11,939.95 while the BSE Sensex was trading 11.30 points up at 39,919.36.
Overall, 23 shares were trading in the green in Nifty50 index, while 27 were trading in the red.
In the Nifty 50 index, Bharti Infratel, JSW Steel, HUL and IndusInd Bank were among the top gainers.
While YES Bank, ONGC, NTPC, BPCL and Indian Oil Corp were trading in the red.