Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a bullish trend in the early trading on Friday and the benchmark KSE-100 index registered a 0.67 percent positive change and gained 754 points to reach 113,318.85 by 10:40 am.
On Thursday, the KSE-100 index witnessed a bearish trend, losing 360.86 points, a negative change of 0.32 percent, closing at 112,564.08 points as compared to 112,924.94 points on the last trading day.
A total of 596,739,574 shares were traded during the day as compared to 669,597,325 shares the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs30.965 billion against Rs27.904 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 445 companies transacted their shares in the stock market. 176 of them recorded gains and 221 sustained losses, whereas the share prices of 48 companies remained unchanged. The three top trading companies were B.O. Punjab with 79,317,612 shares at Rs11.86 per share, Lotte Chemical with 72,104,503 shares at Rs21.23 per share, and Power Cement with 40,290,839 shares at Rs10.03 per share.
Ismail Industries Limited witnessed a maximum increase of Rs90.97 per share, closing at Rs1,943.16, whereas runner-up was Pakistan Services Limited witha Rs64.51 rise in its share price to close at Rs1,025.10.
Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited witnessed a maximum decrease of Rs441.45 per share price, closing at Rs23,482.54, whereas the runner-up was Nestle Pakistan Limited with Rs63.50 decline in its per share price to Rs7,366.50.
