Islamabad, Aug 22: The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) 100-Index maintained its bullish trend on Thursday, adding 532.56 points and closing at 78,793.41 points as opposed to 78,260.86 points on the previous working day. This represents a positive move of 0.68 percent.
During the day, 804,261,249 shares were traded, up from 552,564,507 shares the day before. The price of the shares was Rs 16.975 billion, compared to Rs 14.590 billion on the previous trading day. Out of the 473 firms that traded shares on the stock market, 261 saw gains and 138 saw losses; the share prices of the remaining 74 companies stayed the same.
With 140,914,417 shares trading at Rs. 1.31 per share, WorldCall Telecom, Kohinoor Spinning Power Cement, and Power Cement, with 91,356,461 shares dealing at Rs. 11.99 per share and 51,625,456 shares trading at Rs. 6.03 per share, respectively, were the top three trading businesses.
Hoechst Pakistan Limited saw the biggest increase in share price, rising by Rs. 97.89 to close at Rs. 1,724.00. Services Industries Limited came in second, with a per share price increase of Rs. 92.02 to Rs. 1,067.02. The biggest decliners were Sapphire Textile Mills Limited, which closed at Rs. 1,264.99 after losing Rs. 35.01 a share, and Unilever Pakistan Food Limited, which lost Rs. 19.46 to conclude at Rs. 17,800.00.
