KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) today (Thursday) witnessed a bullish trend, with the benchmark index gained 603.05 points, closing at 45,965.63 points.
The benchmark KSE-100 Index remained in the green throughout the day, marking its intraday high at 46,004.68. It settled higher by 603.04 points at 45,965.62.
A total of 468,970,739 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 557,503,875 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs23.261 billion against Rs26.248 billion the previous day.
As many as 416 companies transacted shares in the stock market, 286 of them recorded gain and 111 sustained losses whereas the share price of 19 companies remained unchanged.
The three top traded companies were Telecard Limited with a volume of 36,199,000 shares and price per share of Rs6.88, Byco Petroleum with a volume of 34,599,000 and Rs10.04 per share and Unity Foods Ltd with a volume of 33,172,359 and Rs32.04 per share.
