ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) recorded a bearish trend on Monday, losing 282.72 points, showing a negative change of 0.36 percent. At close the index settled with 78,615.00 points against 78,897.73 points on the last working day.
A total of 491,124,197 shares were entertained during the day as compared to 743,072,057 shares on the last trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 10.124 billion against Rs 12.900 billion on the previous day.
As many as 443 companies traded their shares in the stock market, 155 of them registered gains and 228 met losses, whereas the share price of 60 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were WorldCall Telecom with 86,006,041 shares at Rs 1.46 per share, followed by Kohinoor Spinning with 42,932,284 shares at Rs.9.63 per share whereas Pace (Pak) Limited with 37,264,175 shares at Rs.6.38 per share.
Haleon Pakistan Limited recorded a maximum increase of Rs 41.13 per share price, closing at Rs 453.32, whereas the runner-up was Service Industries Limited with a Rs 29.37 rise in its per share price to Rs 1,039.47.
Pakistan Engineering Company Limited registered a maximum decrease of Rs 50.80 per share closing at Rs 898.70 followed by Rafhan Maize Products Company Limited with Rs 48.12 decline to close at Rs 7,300.88.
