News Desk
ISLAMABAD: The 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) turned around to bullish trend on Thursday, gaining 45.69 points after losing 43 points the previous day. The index also witnessed a positive change of 0.11 percent, closing at 40,803.89 as compare to 40,758.20 points on Wednesday.
During the day a total of 175,412,767 shares were traded against 189,373,700 shares the previous day, while the price of shares stood at Rs5.891 billion as compare to Rs6.982 billion on the last trading day.
Gains and losses in PSX
In total 345 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, where 175 of them recorded gains and 147 sustained losses, while the share price of 23 companies remained unchanged.
The three top-trading companies were Worldcall Telecom, Pak Refinery and Al Shaheer (R) with 12,621,798 shares at Rs1.17 per share, 9,803,463 shares at Rs14.02 per share, and with 8,951,505 shares at Rs0.65 per share respectively.
Meanwhile, Nestle Pakistan experienced a maximum increase of Rs249.90 per share price, closing at Rs5,850.00, while the runner-up was Pak Services with a Rs140.00 rise in its per share price to Rs 2,045.00.
Pak Engineering witnessed a maximum decline of Rs27.55 per share closing at Rs 339.80, followed by Shield Crops with decrease of Rs20.42 to close at Rs257.00.
