KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has registered modest gains on Friday after witnessing massive bearish trend in previous sessions.
During intraday trading, the KSE-100 index gained over 600 points to reach 147,903 points amid uncertainty in market due to ongoing flooding situation in Punjab.
A day earlier, the benchmark index saw bearish trend, losing 150.52 points, a negative change of 0.10 percent, closing at 147,343.51 points against 147,494.03 points last trading day.
A total of 935,466,958 shares were traded during the day as compared to 856,664,471 shares the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 33.515 billion against Rs 29.286 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 474 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 238 of them recorded gains and 201 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 35 companies remained unchanged.
