KARACHI: The Karachi stocks Friday shot up by 1.15 per cent as KSE-100 index gained 391 points to take the tally to 34352.48 points level in early trading.
On Thursday, the Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE) benchmark 100-index recorded a rise of 1.26% or 423.87 points to end at 33,961.29. However, trade volumes fell to 223 million shares compared with Wednesday’s tally of 278.69 million shares.
Shares of 378 companies were traded. At the end of the day, 258 stocks closed higher, 102 declined and 18 remained unchanged. The value of shares traded during the day was Rs10.8 billion.
