The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) continued the bullish trend on Wednesday and crossed the 140,000 points limit as the benchmark KSE-100 Index gained over 660 points in the early trading to 140,202.17 points against 139,419.61 points in the previous session.
Previous Session:
The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 turned around to a bullish trend, gaining 1,202.03 points, a positive change of 0.87 percent, closing at 139,419.62 points against 138,217.58 points last trading day.
A total of 629,032,405 shares were traded during the day, as compared to 608,186,190 shares on the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 34.675 billion against Rs 23.523 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 478 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 268 of them recorded gains and 178 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 32 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were First Dawood Prop with 44,059,524 shares at Rs 7.64 per share, WorldCall Telecom with 26,417,762 shares at Rs1.46 per share and PTCL with 24,901,859 shares at Rs 23.96 per share.
Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited witnessed a maximum increase of Rs 2,279.22 per share price, closing at Rs 27,777.22, whereas the runner-up was Nestle Pakistan Limited with Rs 45.45 rise in its per share price to Rs 7,445.45.
PIA Holding Company Limited witnessed a maximum decrease of Rs3,101.53 per share closing at Rs 27,913.79 followed by Pakistan Services Limited with Rs117.42 decline in its share price to close at Rs1,097.22.
