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KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) today (Tuesday) witnessed a bearish trend, with the benchmark shed 36.03 points, with a negative change of 0.08 percent, closing at 44,650.43 points.
A total of 582,367,875 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 540,830,379 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs24.235 billion against Rs26.661 billion the previous day.
As many as 409 companies transacted shares in the stock market, 221 of them recorded gain and 179 sustained losses whereas the share price of 9 companies remained unchanged.
The three top traded companies were Hum Network with a volume of 68,807,000 shares and price per share of Rs5.78, Pak Refinery with a volume of 58,179,000 and price per share of Rs22.70 and TRG Pak Ltd with a volume of 31,051,500 and price per share of Rs183.74.
Colgate Palm recorded maximum increase of Rs44 per share, closing at Rs3024 whereas Gillettee PakXR was runner up with the increase of Rs27.30 per share, closing at Rs417.86.