KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Tuesday again lost early gains, shedding 135.59 points to reach 32887.28 points level.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level of 33191.08 points and lowest level of 32880.00 points, with the volume of 88.28 million shares, having about Rs4 billion value. As many as 265 companies were active; of which 102 advanced, 149 declined and 14 remained unchanged.
Auto assembling was the top traded sector with 5,589,000 volume, while commercial banks remained second with 4,090,400 volume.
The three top traded companies were K-Electric Ltd with a volume of 9,983,000 and price per share of 6.87 (-0.14), Dewan Motors with a volume 5,828,500 of price per share of 10.11 (0.34), PIAC (A) with a volume 4,868,000 of price per share of 7.55 (-0.51).
The top three gainers were Murree Brewery with price per share 835.50 (37.50), Shezan Inter with price per share of 499 (19) and Tandlianwala Sugar price per share of 207.39 (9.05).
The top three losers were Rafhan Maize XD with price per share of 7500 (-379), Indus Motor Co XD with price per share of 921.33 (-48.49) and Sapphire Fiber per share of 532 (-27.90).
Earlier, in bid to recoup the overnight losses, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) opened positive and gained 153 points to reach 33176.29 points level in early trading.
On Monday, bearish activity was seen at the stock market amid pressure in oil and fertilizers stocks on uncertainty in global stocks and crude prices. The bench mark KSE 100-share index declined by 57.53 points or 0.17% to close at 33,022 index level. Investors remained on the sidelines. Traded volume went down by 23% to 123m shares.