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Following closed in red on Thursday, the the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a bullish trend soon after the trading started on Friday as till 10:40 am the benchmark KSE-100 index gained 338.22 points to reach 110639.38 points.
On Thursday, the KSE-100 index had dropped 1,634.22 points, a negative change of 1.46 percent, closing at 110,301.16 points as compared to 111,935.38 points on the last trading day.
A total of 598,930,638 shares were traded during the day as compared to 436,325,053 shares the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs25.629 billion against Rs23.225 billion on the last trading day. As many as 435 companies transacted their shares in the stock market. 101 of them recorded gains and 286 sustained losses, whereas the share prices of 48 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Silk Bank Limited with 119,523,297 shares at Rs1.19 per share, WorldCall Telecom with 80,384,932 shares at Rs1.52 per share, and Bank Makramah with 64,937,708 shares at Rs4.15 per share. Nestle Pakistan Limited witnessed a maximum increase of Rs51.11 per share, closing at Rs7,440.36, whereas the runner-up was Haleon Pakistan Limited with Ra s30.39 rise in its share price to close at Rs874.78.
