ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued with a bullish trend on Thursday while gaining 997.95 more points with a positive change of 1.24 percent. At close the index settled with 81,459.29 points against 80,461.34 points on the last working day.
A total of 459,037,985 shares were entertained during the day as compared to 400,195,963 shares the previous day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 18.610 billion against Rs. 15.904 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 469 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 145 of them registered gains and 239 met losses, whereas the share price of 85 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Kohinoor Spinning with 35,184,576 shares at Rs 8.01 per share followed by K-Electric Limited with 23,819,654 shares at Rs 3.99 per share whereas WorldCall Telecom settled with 22,930,170 shares at Rs 1.33 per share.
Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited recorded a maximum increase of Rs 141.10 per share price, closing at Rs 17,508.33, whereas Lucky Cement Industries Limited settled as runner-up with Rs 60.73 increase in its per share price to Rs 1,075.91.
Hallmark Company Limited witnessed a maximum decline of Rs 77.07 per share closing at Rs 822.91 followed by Siemens (Pakistan) Engineering with Rs 46.55 fall to close at Rs 479.57.
