The Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) rallied for the second successive day on Friday by 181.81 points to settle the day at 17,833.54 on renewed bull support by local operators together with strong global signals.

The Nifty of National Stock Exchange (NSE) ended above the 5350 level to 5352.45 after gaining 55.60 points.

Telecom, technology (barring TCS), financial, metal, realty and auto companies' scrips helped the Sensex to gain 181.81 points.

Major stocks jumped during the early trade on strong Asian stocks. The stock market broadened gains to hit fresh intraday highs during morning trade as Asian stocks extended early gains. The market continued the uptrend to hit fresh intraday high during mid-morning trade. It trimmed gains during mid-afternoon trade as index heavyweight RIL came off the higher level. The market regained strength during mid-afternoon trade, with the Sensex hitting a fresh intraday high. It, soon, pared gains.

The Sensex belled the day on a firm note at 17,667.85 as against 17,651.73, the previous day's close and later it gained 205.85 points at the day's high of 17,857.58 during mid-afternoon trade. The index surged 16.12 points at the day's low of 17,667.85 during morning trade. The S & P CNX Nifty belled on a flat note at 5,397.20 points and then it registered the day's high and low at 5359.05 and 5297.20 points respectively.

Markets recorded total turnover of Rs 84,217.07 crore, which comprised Rs 13,626.57 crore from NSE cash segment, Rs 66,349.49 crore from NSE F and O and the balance Rs 4,241.01 crore from BSE cash segment.

BSE clocked turnover worth Rs 4227 crore, higher than Rs 3913.47 crore on previous day.

Among sectoral indices, Realty surged 2.48% followed by Teck, which grew by 2.36%, Metal by 1.55%, Bankex by 1.34%, Auto by 1.29%, IT by 1.06%, Mid cap by 0.90% and CD by 0.88%.

The top gainers during the day were Bharti Airtel, DLF, HDFC Bank, RCom, Hindalco, M&M, Tata Steel and Tata Motors.

The top losers included HUL, ACC, Rel Infra and ITC. (With Inputs from Agencies)