ISLAMABAD: The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a bullish trend on Thursday and gained 356.88 points, showing a positive change of 0.46 percent. At close the index settled at 78,349.66 points against 77,992.79 points on the last trading day.
A total of 599,820,775 shares were entertained during the day as compared to 636,024,989 shares the previous day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 20.409 billion against Rs 16.267 billion on the last working day.
As many as 449 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 227 of them registered gains and 166 met losses, whereas the share price of 56 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Symmetry Group Limited with 64,297,326 shares at Rs 8.57 per share, followed by National Bank XD with 42,591,637 shares at Rs.57.53 per share whereas Kohinoor Spinning settled with 41,140,347 shares at Rs 11.69 per share.
Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited recorded a maximum increase of Rs 241.02 per share price, closing at Rs 17,581.02, while the runner-up was Colgate Palmolive (Pakistan) Limited with a Rs 87.97 rise in its per share price to Rs 1,218.17.
Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited saw a maximum decline of Rs 29.22 per share closing at Rs 565.79 followed by Mari Petroleum Company Limited with Rs 21.56 decline to close at Rs 3,368.32.
