KARACHI: With the advent of new year, Friday trade in Pakistan Stock Exchange saw historic bullish attitude as market jumped its two-and-a-half-year peak as the benchmark KSE-100 index closing at 44,434 points.
On the first day of new decade, KSE-100 recorded 1.55 per cent surge in stocks taking market capitalization up by Rs95 billion.
The bourse in the preceding year grew 7pc in the course of 12 months while the top it scored in terms of benchmark index was 43,955 points.
The market volume of shares traded in the year 2020 were 83 billion translating to Rs31 trillion overall.
