ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a Bullish trend on Friday, gaining 138.55 more points, with a positive change of 0.18 percent. At close the index settled at 78,488.22 points against 78,349.66 points on the last trading day.
A total of 680,810,524 shares were entertained during the day as compared to 599,820,775 shares the previous day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 21.186 billion against Rs 20.409 billion on the last working day.
As many as 545 companies traded their shares in the stock market, 214 of them registered gains and 180 met losses, whereas the share price of 60 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Hascol Petrol with 63,106,709 shares at Rs 7.90 per share followed by Kohinoor Spinning with 44,638,709 shares at Rs.11.84 per share whereas Symmetry Group Limited settled with 38,685,354 shares at Rs 9.34 per share.
Hallmark Company Limited recorded a maximum increase of Rs 73.27 per share price, closing at Rs 806.01, whereas the runner-up was Rafhan Maize Products Company Limited with a Rs 55.47 increase in its per share price to Rs 7,439.17.
Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited saw a maximum decline of Rs 82.09 per share closing at Rs 17,498.93 followed by Sapphire Fibres Limited with Rs 69.43 decline to close at Rs 1,500.00.
