KARACHI: The Karachi stocks Wednesday witnessed variation in trading, however, it closed positive. The KSE-100 index added 33.57 points to close at 33943.74 points level, with the total volume of 75,784,610 shares.
The market recorded the highest trading level of 34036.18 points and lowest level of 33859.41 points. Total volume traded in the market was 139,145,070 shares with 358 total traded companies out of which 147 were up 182 were down and 29 were unchanged.
Cable & Electrical Goods was the top traded sector with total traded volume of 19,845,700 shares. It was followed by REFINERY with a total traded volume of 12,914,400 shares.
The three top traded companies were Pak Elektron with a volume of 19,211,500 and price per share of 79.86 (3.11), Al-Shaheer Corp with a volume 7,498,000 of price per share of 99.80 (4.66), Descon Chemical with a volume 3,579,000 of price per share of 6.37 (0.10).
The top three advancers were Rafhan Maize with price per share 9340.00 (440.00), Khyber Tobacco SPOT with price per share of 489.79 (23.32) and Archroma Pak per share of 441.49 (21.02).
The top three decliners were Island Textile with price per share of 871.03 (45.84), Sanofi-Aventis with price per share of 643.30 (28.67) and Tri-Pack Films share of 243.81 (-12.83).
