Karachi: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) could not maintained its bullish trend after achieving milestone and surpassing the psychological barrier of 1,20,000 points during the morning session trading today.
The 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) turned around to bearish trend later in the day losing 146.45 points, while closed at 118,791.66 points.
A total of 553,668,391 shares were traded during the day as compared to 422,702,593 shares the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 35.492 billion against Rs 28.211 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 457 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 151 of them recorded gains and 258 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 48 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Cnergyico PK with 61,333,939 shares at Rs 8.29 per share, Bank Al-Falah with 43,523,860 shares at Rs74.37 per share and Bank of Punjab 21,774,098 shares at Rs 11.01 per share.