The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) saw a lacklustre trading session on Tuesday and the KSE-100 Index traded in a narrow range to end the day with a marginal loss.
Prolonged political unrest in the country discouraged investors from assuming fresh positions.
At close, the KSE-100 Index was down 95.76 points or 0.23% to settle at 41,099.31.
Trading began with a dive but the market erased most of the losses in initial hour. From this point on, the KSE-100 Index remained range-bound to closed the session in red.
Index-heavy cement, chemical, fertiliser and oil spaces closed with a loss while automobile sector ended the day on a mixed note.
Sector dragging the benchmark KSE-100 index downwards included, oil and gas exploration (32.32 points), banking (19.37 points) and power generation and distribution (17.18 points).
Volume on the all-share index declined to 91.5 million from 97.7 million on Monday, while the value of shares traded decreased to Rs2.4 billion from Rs2.8 billion recorded in the previous session.
WorldCall Telecom was the volume leader with 23.2 million shares followed by K-Electric Limited with 8.55 million shares and Unity Foods with 3.7 million shares.
Shares of 305 companies were traded on Tuesday, of which 116 registered an increase, 152 recorded a fall and 37 remained unchanged.
