ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a bullish trend on Thursday, gaining 532.56 points with a positive change of 0.68 percent. At close the 100-index settled at 78,793.41 points against 78,260.86 points on the last working day.
A total of 804,261,249 shares were traded during the day as compared to 552,564,507 shares on the last day, whereas the price of shares remained at Rs 16.975 billion against Rs 14.590 billion on the last previous day.
As many as 473 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 261 of them registered gains and 138 met losses, whereas the share price of 74 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were WorldCall Telecom with 140,914,417 shares at Rs 1.31 per share, followed by Kohinoor Spinning Power Cement with 91,356,461 shares at Rs.11.99 per share whereas Power Cement settled with 51,625,456 shares at Rs 6.03 per share.
Hoechst Pakistan Limited saw a maximum increase of Rs.97.89 per share price, closing at Rs 1,724.00, whereas the runner-up was Services Industries Limited with a Rs 92.02 rise in its per share price to Rs 1,067.02.
Sapphire Textile Mills Limited registered a maximum decline of Rs.35.01 per share closing at Rs.1,264.99 followed by Unilever Pakistan Food Limited with Rs 19.46 decrease to close at Rs.17,800.00.
