KARACHI: The Karachi stocks Wednesday maintained the upward trend of early trading and gained 217.59 to close at 34061.42 points.
The stock market recorded the highest trading level of 34111.50 points and lowest level of 33843.83 points. Total volume traded in the market was 163,809,610 shares with 358 total traded companies out of which 184 were up 154 were down and 20 were unchanged.
Commercial banks was the top traded sector with total traded volume of 20,320,800 shares. It was followed by INV. BANKS / INV. COS. / SECURITIES COS. with a total traded volume of 15,660,500 shares.
The three top traded companies were Jah.Sidd. Co. with a volume of 11,794,000 and price per share of 21.87 (0.70), Byco Petroleum with a volume 11,284,500 of price per share of 26.31 (0.38), JS Bank Ltd with a volume 6,784,500 of price per share of 8.87 (0.98).
The top three advancers were Bata (Pak) with price per share 3220.00 (139.30), Colgate PalmoXD with price per share of 1466.83 (69.84) and Sapphire FiberXD per share of 819.98 (35.03).
The top three decliners were Nestle Pak SPOT with price per share of 9225.25 (473.08), Unilever Foods with price per share of 7120.00 (370.00) and Island Textile share of 792.07 (41.69).