KARACHI: Bullish trend prevailed at the KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on the first day of trading on Monday as the index gained 770.05 points, with positive change of 1.63 per cent, closing at 47,896.34 points against 47,126.29 points on the last working day.
A total of 1,412,260,015 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 959,886,354 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs32.050 billion against Rs22.748 billion the previous day.
As many as 430 companies transacted shares in the stock market, 351 of them recorded gain and 65 sustained losses whereas the share price of 14 companies remained unchanged.
