KARACHI: Despite losing some early gains, the Pakistan Stock Exchange added 30.13 points to close at its new all-time high of 36265.12 points level on Tuesday.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level of 36339.42 points and lowest level of 36037.80 points, with the volume of 281.46 million shares, having about Rs12 billion value. As many as 360 companies were active; of which 179 advanced, 158 declined and 23 remained unchanged.
Cement was the top traded sector with 70,725,700 volume, while automobile assemblers remained second with 31,817,100 volume.
The three top traded companies were Dewan Cement with a volume of 59,567,000 and price per share of 16.37 (0.89), Dewan Motors with a volume 29,046,500 of price per share of 16.48 (-0.07), Sui North Gas with a volume 18,549,000 of price per share of 36.42 (0.38).
The top three gainers were Wyeth Pak Ltd with price per share 1950 (50), Colgate Palmo with price per share of 1524 (44) and Shield Corp price per share of 585 (25.90).
The top three losers were Unilever FoodsXD with price per share of 5225 (-275), Nestle Pak XD with price per share of 7060 (-140) and Ferozsons (Lab) per share of 882.47 (-12.79).
Earlier, the Pakistan Stock Exchange opened bearish as the benchmark 100-Index shed 87.51 points to reach 36147.48 points level in early trading. Opened with bearish note, the PSE regained 85.67 points to reach 36320.66 points level till midday.
On Monday, the PSX closed at its all-time high of 36,235 points, up 260 points from the last day. The market rose 0.72 per cent with the KSE-100 Index hovering at an intraday high of 36,300.52 points, 171 points below its all-time intraday high of 36,471 points on August 6, 2015.
The KSE-100 Index, which measures the performance of the hundred most liquid stocks, recorded an increase of 3.6 per cent in the last week. The highest average volume was clocked in at 16.6 million shares by The Resource Group (TRG) for the last 21 days, followed by 13.3 million shares of the SNGPL and 9.7 million shares of the BYCO. The overall trend of 2015 was slow but a surge has been observed in the last four months.
