ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a bullish trend on Wednesday, gaining 515.34 points with a positive change of 0.66 percent. At close the index settled at 78,260.86 points against 77,745.52 points on the last trading day.
A total of 552,564,507 shares were entertained during the day as compared to 380,717,441 shares the previous day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 14.590 billion against Rs 11.237 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 453 companies traded their shares in the stock market, 289 of them registered gains and 119 met, whereas the share price of 45 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Kohinoor Spinning with 62,921,008 shares at Rs 11.23 per share, followed by Power Cement with 41,961,669 shares at Rs.5.79 per share while Yousuf Weaving settled with 37,366,130 shares at Rs 6.82 per share.
Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited saw a maximum increase of Rs.219.46 per share price, closing at Rs 17,819.46, whereas the runner-up was Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited with a Rs 32.55 increase in its per share price to Rs 568.10.
Hoechst Pakistan Limited witnessed a maximum decline of Rs.125.90 per share closing at Rs.1,626.11 followed by Atlas Ismail Industries Limited with Rs 61.50 decline to close at Rs.1,537.50.
