KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued the upward rally and added 319.04 points to reach 32403.10 points level till midday on Thursday.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level of 32445.60 points and lowest level of 32084.06 points, with the volume of 80.54 million shares, having about Rs5 billion value. As many as 278 companies were active; of which 194 advanced, 67 declined and 17 remained unchanged.
Cement was the top traded sector with 9,789,700 volume, while banks/inv cos/securities cos remained second with 8,017,500 volume.
The three top traded companies were Jahangir Siddiqui and Company Ltd with a volume of 6,058,500 and price per share of 19.02 (1.00), TRG Pak Ltd with a volume 5,254,000 of price per share of 27.80 (0.80), and Byco Petroleum with a volume 3,723,000 of price per share of 17.70 (0.40).
The top three gainers were Hinopak Motor with price per share 1095.75 (52.17), Mari Petroleum with price per share of 663.99 (25.35) and Lucky Cement price per share of 520 (13.63).
The top three losers were Bata (Pak) with price per share of 3100 (-65.11), Murree Brewery with price per share of 755.30 (-39.70) and Atlas Battery per share of 675 (-10).
Earlier, the stocks opened keeping bullish trend as KSE-100 index added another 295.13 points to take the tally to 32379.19 points level in early trading.
On Wednesday, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed bullish momentum whole the day but in last session, reached above 32,000 level with a gain of 123 points to close in green at 32,084 level. The market volume however remained almost static to the previous trading session, while Pak Elektron was the volume leader of the day with a trade of 8.38 million, while Dewan cement and Dewan Salaman Fibre were second and third volume leaders with a respective trade of 8 million and 7.68 million shares.