The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a positive session on Friday, as its benchmark KSE-100 Index added another 219 points on some level of clarity on the political front after the electoral watchdog announced election week.
The KSE-100 largely traded in the positive zone during the session. At close, it settled at 46,421.15, up by 219.02 points or 0.47%.
During trading on Friday, major positive contributions to the index came from HUBC, PPL, FFC, DAWH, and UNITY, as they cumulatively contributed 138 points. Whereas SYS, ENGRO, MTL, NESTLE, and TRG lost value to weigh down on the index by -60 points, brokerage house Topline Securities stated in its post-market report.
Volume on the all-share index increased marginally to 172.9 million from 172.1 million on Thursday.
The value of shares rose to Rs6.27 billion from Rs5.345 billion in the previous session.
Cnergyico PK remained the volume leader with 10.56 million shares, followed by WorldCall Telecom with 10.06 million shares and Unity Foods Ltd with 9.13 million shares.
Shares of 323 companies were traded on Friday, of which 197 registered an increase, 99 recorded a fall, and 27 remained unchanged.
