Shares of banking, infra, energy and PSE sectors firmed up sharply on persistent buying from investors.
Emphatic win of BJP and its allies in the just-ended Lok Sabha polls has created an euphoria in the equity market, which is riding high on hopes that the upcoming Narendra Modi Government will remove infrastructure bottlenecks and take steps to boost economic growth.
Top five gainers from the Nifty were SBI (9.63 per cent), Tata Power (6.39 per cent), Jindal Steel (5.95 per cent), PNB (5.35 per cent) and Maruti Suzuki (5.34 per cent).
Top five losers were Hindalco (1.97 per cent), Kotak Bank (1.68 per cent), HDFC Bank (1.61 per cent), Infosys (1.42 per cent) and IndusInd Bank (1.17 per cent).
However, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) continued to sell shares as they pulled out Rs 294.99 crore yesterday, as per the provisional data with stock exchanges.