KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange remained in negative zone till midday and dropped 138.47 points to reach 30926.66 points level on Tuesday.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level of 31065.13 points and lowest level of 30885.36 points, with the volume of 61.38 million shares, having over Rs3.55 billion value. As many as 232 companies were active; of which 85 advanced, 132 declined and 15 remained unchanged.
Fertilizer was the top traded sectors with 7,621,000 volume, while cement remained second with 7,431,700 volume.
The three top traded companies were Fauji Fert Bin with a volume of 5,614,500 and price per share of 49.49 (1.12), TRG Pak Ltd with a volume 4,601,000 of price per share of 27.05 (-0.05), and Japan Power with a volume 4,419,500 of price per share of 3.69 (-0.03).
The top three gainers were Salfi Textile with price per share 141 (6), Mehran Sugar XD with price per share of 125 (5.01) and National Refin price per share of 256.50 (4.20).
The top three losers were Ferozsons (Lab) with price per share of 1001.99 (-51.57), Ghandhara Ind with price per share of 371 (-17.63) and Mari Petroleum per share of 610 (-11.48).
Earlier, after witnessing a bullish day, the Pakistan Stock Exchange Tuesday opened negative, shedding 171.76 points to drop to 30893.37 points level.
On Monday, the PSX closed higher on speculations ahead of major financial results due this week. Due to stability in oil prices, oil sector was in limelight which helped the index rally by 116.10 points or 0.37% to close at 31065.13 points. Traded volume decreased by 1.8% to 129.3m shares, while traded value remained unchanged at Rs6.5b/$64m. TRG (Pak) emerged as volume leader with volume of 12.3m shares, followed by Pace (Pak) with 10m and Japan Power with 8.4m shares.
