KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange Monday opened keeping negative note and shed 44 points to reach 36897 points level in early trading.
Last week, the stocks registered a negative growth of 0.8 percent due to profit-taking.The key sectors, chemicals, cements, banks and electricity witnessed profit-taking whereas heavyweight oil & gas gained on a WoW basis. The volumes decreased by 36 percent WoW to 152m shares/day and average daily traded value receding to $79m (down 25 percent WoW).