KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark 100-index gained 179.86 points or 0.54 percent to reach 33765.61 points and volume of 220,156,920 shares on Thursday.
Keeping in view the buoyancy tendency, it seem the market will scale 34,000 points mark before end of the current trade week.
The stocks kept flying high, staging a grand rally to boost benchmark KSE 100-index to an all-time high on its journey to another milestone of 34,000 points mark in early trading, ahead of monetary policy and expected discount rate cut by the State Bank.
High and Low were 33941.51 and 33585.75 respectively. Total volume traded in the market was 217,292,190 shares.
The bulls dominated the market as the market witnessed hectic trading amid flurry of activities, showing the investors’ focus and confidence on speculations of discount rate cut in the upcoming monetary policy being announced today (Thursday).
The market opened at the overnight closing of 33586 points and seemed in hurry to achieve another milestone of 34,000 points level.
Although the market is rife with rumours of the monetary policy announcement expectations, the State Bank gave no indications that it was to be announced on the purported date.
On Wednesday, foreign investors continued to be net buyers with inflow of $2.74 million, almost entirely in the banking sector, possibly anticipating robust year-end results to be announced later this month. Volume increased by 38pc in terms of shares traded and 34pc in trading value.
