KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange Wednesday maintained the last day’s upward trend and gained 278 points to reach 33752.18 points level till midday.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level 33775.12 points and lowest level of 33474.17 points, with the total volume of 55,216,140 shares, having Rs3,806,090,901 value.
On Tuesday, the KSE staged partial recovery with the KSE-100 index regaining 529.69 points (1.61 per cent) to close at 33,474.17. Although bullishly inclined, the market remained in search of direction as the index posted maximum intra-day gains of 562 points but also dipped into the red by 300 points. Traded volume increased to 292 million shares compared with 218m shares, while value also rose to Rs13.1 billion from Rs10.6bn traded a day earlier.