KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange Monday again went to negative zone by shedding 179.93 points to drop to 33049.02 points level till midday.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level of 33304.40 points and lowest level of 33036.97 points, with the volume of 58,175,940 shares, having over Rs3.54 billion value. As many as 263 companies were active; of which 66 advanced, 183 declined and 14 remained unchanged.
The three top traded companies were Dewan Cement with a volume of 6,289,500 and price per share of 14.20 (0.34), MapleLeafCement with a volume 5,166,000 of price per share of 79.98 (1.68), and TRG Pak Ltd with a volume 4,394,500 of price per share of 35.02 (-0.14).
The top three gainers were Unilever Foods with price per share 6100 (150), Bata (Pak) with price per share of 3300 (134.75) and Shield Corp with price per share of 418.95 (19.95).
The top three losers were Sapphire Fiber with price per share of 680.05 (-34.85), Exide (PAK) with price per share of 910.25 (-28.50) and Sanofi-Aventis per share of 650 (-19.99).
Last week, the overall sentiments at the bourse remained positive, as the benchmark KSE-100 index closed 2.2 percent WoW higher. Activity also improved as average traded volumes (+24 percent WoW to 114 million shares/day) and value (+0.4 percent WoW to $63m) inched up. Average daily volumes increased 24 percent to 113.7 million shares, while average daily value remained flat at Rs6.6 billion/$62.5 million.
