The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) maintained the bullish trend for the second consecutive day on Friday and the benchmark KSE-100 Index gained 441 points to close at 115,536.16 points against 115,094.23 points on the previous session.
The positive change was recorded 0.38%, while the high level of the market was at 115,730.98 points and the low level at 115,162.69 during the Friday session.
Total 205,477,652 shares were traded with a total value of Rs.15, 888 billion. As many as 435 companies transited during the session, of which 195 remained in green, 169 in red while 71 in neural position.
Buying momentum was observed in key sectors including automobile assemblers, cement, commercial banks, oil and gas exploration companies, OMCs, and refinery. Index-heavy stocks including ARL, HUBCO, MARI, OGDC, PSO, SSGC, MEBL, HBL and UBL traded in the green.
On the other hand, the Pakistani rupee remained unchanged against the US dollar during the opening trading in the inter-bank market on Friday.
