KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange Tuesday opened with negative mood as 100-index shed 44.85 points to drop to 32662.38 points level, with the total volume of 9,583,150 shares.
On Monday, the KSE benchmark 100-index gained 101.60 points or 0.31 percent to reach 32707.22 points. Total volume traded in the market was 179,134,720 shares with 318 total traded companies out of which 179 were up 126 were down and 13 were unchanged.
The analysts predicted last week that the stocks would show lacklustre performance in the current trading week due to State Bank’s new monetary policy statement.