Karachi: Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday,today, witnessed a bullish trend during trading today with an increase of over 1067 points in the 100 Index.
The 100 Index that closed at 1, 17, 315 points on last working day of the week reached 1, 18, 405 points during the trading.
The upward trend in the stock exchange is a testament of the increasing confidence of business community on economic policies of government.
A total of 672,443,910 shares were traded during the day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 36.424 billion.
As many as 451 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 252 of them recorded gains and 158 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 41 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Cnergyico PK with 103,028,410 shares at Rs 8.55 per share, Power Cement with 62,587,267 shares at Rs 13.54 per share and Bank of Punjab with 42,587,808 shares at Rs 11.42 per share.
