ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) today (Tuesday) witnessed a bullish trend, with the benchmark index gained 176.55 points with a positive change of 0.39 percent, closing at 45,903.23 points.
A total 491,787,174 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 543,645,793 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs19.934 billion against Rs21.659 billion previous day.
As many as 425 companies transacted shares in the stock market, 196 of them recorded gain and 210 sustained losses whereas the share price of 19 companies remained unchanged.
The three top traded companies were TRG Pak Ltd with a volume of 29,407,000 shares and price per share of Rs103.49, Pak Refinery with a volume of 28,848,000 and price per share of Rs24.09 and Fauji Foods Ltd with a volume of 22,225,500 and price per share of Rs19.11.
Rafhan Maize recorded maximum increase of Rs389.99 99 per share, closing at Rs9989.99 whereas Nestle Pakistan was runner up with the increase of Rs145 per share, closing at Rs6600.01.