KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued with a bullish trend on the second day of the week today (Tuesday) as the benchmark index closed at 41,153 points, with a positive change of 369.01 points (0.90%).
Among other indices, the KMI 30 index gains 952.42 points ending at 65,935.93, while the KSE All Share index managed to gain 190.58 points closing at 28,861.45.
A total of 355,986,126 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 276,797,965 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs15.144 billion.
As many as 403 companies transacted shares in the stock market, 204 of them recorded gain and 176 sustained losses whereas the share price of 23 companies remained unchanged.
The three top traded companies were TRG Pak Ltd with a volume of 30,914,500 shares and price per share of Rs57.47, Pak Refinery with volume of 23,526,500 and price per share Rs 19.11 and Al-Shaheer Crop with a volume of 21,654,000 and price per share of Rs19.20.
Island Textile recorded a maximum increase of Rs86.18 per share, closing at Rs1235.30 whereas Sapphire Tex was runner up with an increase of Rs73.16 per share, closing at Rs1053.42.
