With heavyweight Reliance Industries leading from the front, Nifty on Friday crossed the 18,500 mark for the first time in the calendar year 2023. Sensex ended 629 points higher while Nifty rose around 1% to 18,573 amid favourable global cues.

Dear Trader… Among the Sensex stocks, RIL, Sun Pharma, HUL, HCL Tech and Wipro were the top gainers. On the other hand, only Bharti Airtel, Power Grid Corp, and NTPC closed in the red. Sectorally, Nifty IT rallied 1.48% and Nifty FMCG 1.47%. Banks, financials, auto, media, metal, pharma, realty,