KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Friday had a topsy-turvy trading session but ended the week on a positive note with minor gains, a day after a bearish run sent the market below the 46,000 points level.
Encouraging financial results encouraged the investors to pour money in select sectors that aided the rally.
At the close, the benchmark KSE-100 index gained 46.72 points, or 0.10%, to settle at 45,909.65 points.
Shares of 360 companies were traded during the session. At the close of trading, 158 scrips closed in the green, 178 in the red, and 24 remained unchanged.
Overall trading volumes plunged to 192.47 million shares compared with Thursday’s tally of 328 million. The value of shares traded during the day was Rs8.89 billion.
