KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange Thursday started trading with negative note and dropped 40 points to reach 32884.22 points level in early trading.
On Tuesday, the PSE witnessed another dull day as the investors remained on the sidelines ahead of today’s public holiday. The benchmark KSE 100-index closed below 33,000 points after posting a decline of 94.57 points. Traded volume increased by 21% to 133m while traded value stood at Rs6.3b/USD 60m). Total 310 companies participated in the session. Of them, 180 closed in decline, 98 in advance while 32 remained unchanged. Top contributors were KEL and DFML with 11.3m shares and 10.3m shares respectively.