ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Thursday Witnessed a bullish trend, gaining 365.82 points, with a positive change of 0.47 percent. At close the index settled at 79,017.62 points against 78,651.80 points on the previous working day.
A total of 584,276,012 shares were traded during the day as compared to 532,732,689 shares the last working day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 16.364 billion against Rs. 14.735 billion on the previous trading day.
As many as 439 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 212 of them registered gains and 167 met losses, whereas the share price of 60 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Kohinoor Spinning with 60,745,513 shares at Rs 8.87 per share, followed by WorldCall Telecom with 57,978,199 shares at Rs.1.43 per share whereas TPL Properties settled with 32,499,453 shares at Rs.9.35 per share.
Pakistan Tobacco Company Limited saw a maximum increase of Rs.49.07 per share price, closing at Rs 918.78, whereas the runner-up was Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited with a Rs 48.00 rise in its per share price to Rs 17,440.00.
Mari Petroleum Company Limited registered a maximum decline of Rs 83.34 per share closing at Rs 3,502.86 followed by Pakistan Engineering Company Limited with a Rs 37.77 decrease to close at Rs 872.00.
