News Desk
ISLAMABAD: After a loss of over 270 points previous day, the 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) turned around slightly on Friday while gaining 39.96 points with a positive change of 0.10 percent, closing at 41,118.61 points compared to 41,078.65 points on Thursday.
On Friday, a total of 110,366,624 shares were transacted against 141,865,637 shares the last trading day, while the price of shares stood at Rs4.677 billion against Rs7.438 billion on the previous day.
Bullish Trend in PSX
As many as 317 companies traded their shares in the stock market, 133 of them recorded gains and 157 sustained losses, while the share price of 27 companies were closed without change.
The three top-trading companies were Bank of Punjab, WorldCall Telecom and Bank Islami Pakistan with 12,157,000 shares at Rs4.76 per share, with 12,095,785 shares at Rs1.19 per share, and with 7,351,000 shares at Rs13.20 per share respectively.
Rafhan Maize recorded a maximum increase of Rs391.00 per share price, closing at Rs9.190.00, whereas the runner-up was Bata (Pak), with a rise of Rs114.99 per share price to Rs1,989.99.
Unilever Foods experienced a maximum decline of Rs1,216.00 per share closing at Rs18,210.00; followed by Sapphire Fiber with a decline of Rs57.99 to close at Rs972.00.
