KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Monday continued upward rally and added massive 455.67 points or 1.45 per cent to take the tally to 31754.27 points level till midday.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level of 31804.09 points and lowest level of 31285.18 points, with the volume of 83.79 million shares, having over Rs4.70 billion value. As many as 267 companies were active; of which 157 advanced, 93 declined and 17 remained unchanged.
Commercial banks were the top traded sector with 30,838,900 volume, while cement remained second with 9,983,000 volume.
The three top traded companies were BO Punjab with a volume of 16,529,000 and price per share of 8.85 (0.45), Pak Elektron XR with a volume 5,200,500 of price per share of 63.40 (1.78), and Fauji Cement with a volume 4,646,000 of price per share of 39.10 (0.21).
The top three gainers were Highnoon (Lab) with price per share 520 (17.59), The Searle Com with price per share of 428.31 (14.14) and Ghandhara Ind price per share of 399.10 (10.24).
The top three losers were Unilever Foods with price per share of 5800 (-290), Bata (Pak) with price per share of 3301.11 (-98.89) and Colgate Palmo per share of 1500 (-47.50).
Earlier, the PSX opened positive on first day of new trading week as KSE-100 index added 207.32 points to reach 31505.92 points level.
The stocks on Friday closed higher led by selected oil, fertilizers and cement scrips. The PSX shares index posted a gain of 104.87 points (up 0.34) to close at 31,298.60 points. The market index started in green and remained intact towards the end to close in green zone. Traded volume increased by 65 % to 141.4mn shares as compared to 86m shares changed hands yesterday, while traded value increased 52.4% to Rs9.3bn/US$90m.