Meet the top gaining stocks lifted by yesterday's bullish sentiment

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. – Eletrobrás, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. made yesterday's list of top gainers.

Leading equity indices in the US rose as S&P 500 gained 1.23% and closed at 4,450.38. Nasdaq closed the day at 13,800, having gained 1.45%.

More data out yesterday as United States Core PCE Price Index (YoY) (May) released yesterday at 12:30 UTC with a figure of 4.6, while the previous figure was 4.7.

Have a look at yesterday's biggest gainers:

+2.76%: Brookfield Infrastructure is up to $37 (+1.37%) in after hours trading after closing yesterday's session at $36.5

The infrastructure assets partnership topped out at $36.66 having ended yesterday at $36.5. However, despite early momentum, the stock gave up its gains to now trade at $36.5. The infrastructure assets manager's market cap currently stands at $16.74 billion with an average daily trading volume of 321,325 shares. So far this year, it has been under-performing the Nasdaq by 7.95%.

Korea Electric Power | Closed +3.33% at $7.75

Korea Electric Power hit a significant low of $5.8 around 8 months ago, but has since recovered 29.31%. So far this year, it has been doing worse than the Nasdaq by 25.15%. The company is currently trading with a market cap of $9.95 billion with an average daily volume of 215,401 shares.

+3.89%: Centrais Electricas Brasileiras opened at $8.05 yesterday before posting solid session gaining 3.89%

After ending Thursday's session at $7.96, Centrais Electricas Brasileiras went up to $8.32 yesterday only to fall back and close at $8.27. Centrais Electricas Brasileiras's market cap is currently $19 billion with an average daily volume of 1.35 million shares. So far this year, it has been under-performing the Nasdaq by 10.65%.

Centrais Electricas Brasileiras trades at $8.27 ahead of quarterly performance report which is scheduled to be released Monday.