Here are the top ASX large cap movers for Friday

The ASX200 cruised into the close with a gain of 0.36% on Friday, as markets remained relatively sanguine ahead of US employment figures later tonight.

Gains at the big end of town were led by the IT sector which rose more than 2%.

More steady gains in financials and energy stocks offset another round of falls in the big resources companies, as the ASX200 Materials index finished the week almost 2% lower.

BIG CAP WINNERS

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Code	Name	Price	% Change	Volume	Market Cap
APT	Afterpay Limited	132.15	5.5%	5,052,112	$36,278,229,088
AZJ	Aurizon Holdings Ltd	4.06	3.8%	10,876,276	$7,197,152,570
PNI	Pinnacle Investment	15.7	5.7%	1,420,100	$2,830,172,474
PBH	Pointsbet Holdings	10.00	4.2%	3,480,848	$2,203,743,274
CEN	Contact Energy Ltd	8.17	3.9%	19,110	$1,911,440,003
WEB	Webjet Limited	5.21	5.3%	5,497,888	$1,876,098,604
CRN	Coronado Global Res	0.945	5.0%	2,297,695	$1,508,808,357
ZEL	Z Energy Ltd	2.92	6.2%	478,426	$1,431,311,346
EML	EML Payments Ltd	3.77	4.1%	3,475,405	$1,310,474,354
VUL	Vulcan Energy	13.25	15.4%	3,274,849	$1,248,554,617
MGH	Maas Group Holdings	4.7	5.9%	106,243	$1,224,352,204
PPK	PPK Group Limited	13.91	4.1%	219,341	$1,189,731,954
URW	Unibailrodawestfield	6.2	5.6%	707,014	$1,182,262,142
NVX	Novonix Limited	3.02	6.0%	5,699,722	$1,153,113,944
NWS	News Corp	35.2	7.9%	383,456	$1,143,860,280

Large cap gains were again led by Afterpay (ASX:APT), which rose by another 5% to close at $132 — now well above the indicative offer price of ~$126 per share in the marquee Square Inc transaction announced earlier this week.

Pointsbet Holdings (ASX:PBH) also climbed, rebounding off recent lows to close at $10 after falling from highs above $16 in February this year.

And Contact Energy (ASX:CEN) closed 3.9% higher after announcing a new board appointment, with infrastructure expert Sandra Dodds joining as a non-executive director.

BIG CAP LOSERS

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Code	Name	Price	% Change	Volume	Market Cap
REA	REA Group	159.42	-4.7%	427,564	$22,100,568,060
NST	Northern Star	9.94	-3.3%	5,352,552	$11,962,697,415
CIA	Champion Iron Ltd	6.67	-4.0%	2,303,409	$3,519,592,340
DHG	Domain Holdings Aus	4.62	-4.9%	7,598,418	$2,839,521,529
ZIM	Zimplats Holding Ltd	23.81	-2.1%	493	$2,616,671,247
LFS	Latitude Group	2.29	-2.6%	68,164	$2,350,000,000
PRU	Perseus Mining Ltd	1.575	-5.4%	5,530,220	$2,042,904,334
LTR	Liontown Resources	0.935	-2.6%	9,950,898	$1,826,798,630
HTA	Hutchison	0.11	-4.3%	35,972	$1,560,838,486
RMS	Ramelius Resources	1.705	-3.7%	2,465,634	$1,440,810,561
SBM	St Barbara Limited	1.735	-2.5%	3,870,100	$1,260,460,344
BKI	BKI Investment Ltd	1.625	-2.1%	813,853	$1,226,744,308
GOR	Gold Road Res Ltd	1.325	-3.3%	2,293,607	$1,206,806,474
PSI	Psc Insurance Ltd	3.39	-3.1%	80,071	$1,127,833,623
GUD	G.U.D. Holdings	11.42	-2.9%	647,915	$1,107,569,113
HM1	Hearts and Minds	4.43	-3.7%	68,654	$1,039,755,563
WAF	West African Res Ltd	1.09	-4.0%	2,042,550	$1,002,500,470

Falls were led by online marketplace REA Group (ASX:REA), which dipped by 4.7% as investors responded to the company’s full-year results presentation released this morning.