KARACHI: The Karachi stocks witnessed another day of fluctuation in trading, but closed in green zone, taking only 1.58 points to reach 33945.32 level on Thursday.
The Karachi Stock Exchange recorded highest trading level of 34041.56 points and lowest level of 33923.20 points, with the total volume of 98,212,770 shares, having Rs5,331,634,902 value. 197 out of total 349 trading companies were remained up, 124 were down and 24 were unchanged.
Power Generation & Distribution was the top traded sector with total traded volume of 43,105,000 shares. It was followed by Oil & Gas Marketing Companies with a total traded volume of 21,286,150 shares.
The three top traded companies were Pace (Pak) Ltd. with a volume of 19,224,500 and price per share of 7.35 (0.28), K-Electric Ltd. with a volume 13,599,500 of price per share of 7.31 (0.18), Japan Power with a volume 13,404,000 of price per share of 5.94 (0.79).
The top three advancers were Rafhan Maize with price per share 9700.00 (360.00), Unilever Foods with price per share of 7149.00 (49.00) and Pak Tobacco per share of 989.00 (46.50).
The top three decliners were Nestle Pak SPOT with price per share of 9747.00 (502.00), Bata (Pak) with price per share of 2795.00 (94.00) and Khyber Tobacco XD share of 459.61 (24.18).
On Wednesday, the KSE also witnessed a roller-coaster ride but managed to make modest gains as investors took fresh positions on healthy financial numbers in the banking sector. The KSE 100-Index gained 33.57 points, or 0.10 percent, to close at 33,943.74 points. The KSE 30-share Index shed 4.91 points, or 0.02 percent, to end at 20,330.96 points.
