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KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) today (Monday) failed to retain the upward trajectory, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index shedding over 208 points.
The KSE-100 index witnessed a bearish trend, as PSX lost 208.43 points, with a negative change of 0.46 percent, closing at 44,978.05 points against 45,186.48 points on the last working day.
A total of 503,526,595 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 688,037,488 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs19.970 billion against Rs25.344 billion the previous day.
As many as 387 companies transacted shares in the stock market, 130 of them recorded gain and 234 sustained losses whereas the share price of 23 companies remained unchanged.
The three top traded companies were World call Telecom with a volume of 73,751,500 shares and price per share of Rs1.43, TRG Pak Ltd with a volume of 42,170,016 and price per share of Rs159.61 and Ghani Glo Hol with a volume of 38,841,500 and price per share of Rs28.34.
AKD Capital witnessed a maximum increase of Rs28.69 per share, closing at Rs411.31 followed by Shezan Inter, share prices of which increased by Rs10, closing at Rs315.
Colgate Palm recorded a maximum decrease of Rs50 per share, closing at Rs2750 whereas Sapphire Tex was runner up with the decrease of Rs47.07 per share, closing at Rs814.