Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued the bullish trend in the early trading on Thursday as the benchmark KSE-100 Index gained over 300 points to 122,281.58 points against 121,798.86 points.
At 9:40 am, the stock market was trading at 121,820.71 points with a positive change of 0.02%.
Previous session:
The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued with a bullish trend on Wednesday, gaining 1,347.99 points, a positive change of 1.12 percent, closing at 121,798.87 points as compared to 120,450.87 points on the last trading day.
A total of 710,591,203 shares were traded during the day as compared to 578,163,611 shares on the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 35.216 billion against Rs 26.827 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 475 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 264 of them recorded gains and 170 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 41 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Sui South Gas with 51,634,991 shares at Rs 38.42 per share, Fauji Foods Limited with 51,388,381 shares at Rs 16.75 per share, and K-Electric Limited with 41,397,930 shares at Rs 5.41 per share.
Supernet Technologies Limited witnessed a maximum increase of Rs 79.11 per share,e closing at Rs 870.21, whereas the runner-up was Khyber Pakistan Engineering Company Limited with Rs 74.48 rise in its share price to close at Rs 819.30
PIA Holding Company LimitedB witnessed a maximum decrease of Rs 3,554.32 per share price, closing at Rs 31,988.87, whereas the runner-up Khyber Textile Mills Limited with Rs 337.68 decline in its per share price to Rs 3,039.08.