ISLAMABAD:The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) turned around on Thursday and witnessed bullish trend, gaining 1111.90 points, with a positive change of 2.57 per cent, closing at 44,333.68 points against 43,221.78 points on the last working day.
A total of 388,597,570 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 354,964,803 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs13.086 billion against Rs12.293 billion the previous day.
As many as 557 companies’ transacted shares in the stock market, 464 of them recorded gain and 79 sustained losses whereas the share price of 14 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were WorldCall Telecom with a volume of 66,164,000 shares and price per share of Rs 2.43, Unity Foods Ltd with a volume of 25,029,893 and price per share of Rs28.50 and Telecard Limited with volume of 18,987,500 and price per share of Rs16.54.
Unilever Foods witnessed a maximum increase of Rs600 per share, closing at Rs21000.Nestle Pakistan was runner up, share prices of which increased by Rs135, closing at Rs5850.
Highnoon (Lab) recorded a maximum decrease of Rs17.17 per share, closing at Rs575.10 followed by Pak Engineering, the prices of which declined by Rs14.50 per share, closing at Rs330.50.