Pakistan Stock Exchange continues celebrating ‘green’ July
July 14, 2020 12:43 PM
The Pakistan Stock Exchange must be celebrating the latest series gains starting from July 1 as the KSE-100 Index was up by 67.61 points in early trading on Tuesday.
With 91,328,388 shares traded so far, the index was at 36,686.18 by the time this report was being filed.
The Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited and the Pakistan Petroleum Limited were the two most active stocks in early trading as the shares of 278 companies had been traded so far.
At one point, the index was as high as 36,785.62 while it also dipped to the level of 36,534.70 due to fluctuations.
On Monday, the KSE-100 Index was up by 428.17 points as the Pakistan Stock Exchange continued making gains as part of the recent positive trend.
With these gains, the index closed at 36,618.57 as a total of 324,378,706 shares of 373 companies were traded during the session. Out of these, the share prices of 211 companies went up, 145 shed their value while 17 remained unchanged.
Since July 1, the KSE-100 Index has gained 2,254.49 points and did not experience a negative session during these days. As far as the weekly progress was concerned, the index made a gain of 1,139.02 points in the last week.