ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed bullish trend while gaining 34.38 points on Friday, showing a positive change of 0.04 percent. At close the index settled at 78,897.73 points against 78,863.34 points on the previous working day.
Overall, 743,072,057 shares were traded during the day as compared to 770,518,958 shares the last trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 12.900 billion against Rs 14.287 billion on the pervious working day.
As many as 444 companies traded their shares in the stock market, 185 of them recorded gains and 201 met, whereas the share price of 58 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were WorldCall Telecom with 133,252,011 shares at Rs 1.42 per share, followed by Pace (Pak) Limited with 80,985,708 shares at Rs.6.14 per share, whereas Kohinoor Spining settled with 46,705,713 shares at Rs.9.52 per share.
Hallmark Company Limited saw a maximum increase of Rs 98.21 per share price, closing at Rs 1,080.33, whereas Nestle Pakistan Limited was the runner-up with a Rs 82.50 rise in its per share price to Rs 6,997.50.
Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited witnessed a maximum decline of Rs 200.00 per share closing at Rs 17,300.00 followed by First Imrooz Modaraba with Rs 17.22 decline to close at Rs 155.78.
