KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has regained its momentum today (Thursday) as the benchmark index gained 789 points, or 1.96 percent, to close at 41,071 points.
The trading session witnessed bullish trends which made the main index to travel in a healthy range of 802.94 points. During the course of the trading day, the key index touched an intraday peak of 41,084.90 points as against an intraday low of 40,281.96 points.
Among other indices, the KSE All-Share Index surged by 1.70 percent, or 482.63 points to close at 28,848.63 points, while the KMI 30-Index jacked up by 2.20 percent, or 1,417.76 points, to conclude at 65,753.84 points.
Close to 193.3 million shares changed hands, with a total worth of nearly Rs8.1 billion. Stocks of 365 companies were traded, of which 252 gained in value, 91 declined and 22 remained unchanged.
Volumes were led by Pakistan Refinery Ltd (PRL), with 33.1 million shares traded. Unity Foods Ltd, Pakistan International Bulk Terminal Ltd, Hascol and TRG closed out the top five symbols traded, with volumes of 32.3m, 19.3m, 19.1m and 13.1m, respectively.
