ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a bullish trend on Friday, while gaining 1,893.08 points, with a positive change of 2.13 percent. At close the index settled at 90,859.85 points as compared to 88,966.77 points on last working day.
A total of 465,865,841 shares were entertained during the day as compared to 546,274,609 shares the last trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 23.089 billion against Rs.24.117 billion on the previous trading day.
As many as 430 companies traded their shares in the stock market, 220 of them registered gains and 156 met losses, whereas the share price of 54 companies remained unchanged.
Silk Bank Limited remained the volume leader among the top three trading companies with 62,534,221 shares at Rs 0.94 per share, followed by K-Electric Limited with 57,568,675 shares at Rs 4.67 per share whereas WorldCall Telecom settled with 27,214,192 shares at Rs1.22 per share.
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Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited recorded a maximum increase of Rs.572.11 per share price, closing at Rs 19,161.11, whereas Siemens (Pakistan) Engineering was the runner-up with Rs 58.62 rise in its per share price to Rs 1,451.49.
Rafhan Maize Products Company Limited witnessed a maximum decline of Rs 158.40 per share closing at Rs 7,541.60 followed by Sapphire Fibres Limited with a decrease of Rs 61.61 to close at Rs 1,216.11.
