KARACHI: The stocks Monday opened positive after four holidays as the Karachi Stock Exchange gained 71.27 points to reach 32572.02 points in early trading.
On Wednesday, the stock opened with positive note, but started sliding till closing at 32500.75 level by shedding 140.32points on the last trading day before four holidays. The KSE-100 index recorded the highest trading level of 32706.10 points and lowest level of 32489.58 points, with the volume of 71,791,890 shares, having Rs5.8 billion value. As many as 329 companies were active; of which 117 advanced, 192 declined and 20 remained unchanged. Commercial banks remained the highest traded sector with total volume of 13,937,500 shares, while oil & gas marketing companies remained second traded sector with a total volume of 11,600,300 shares.
