KSE-100 index shed 359 points

KSE-100 index shed 359 points

Karachi (Staff Report): Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Thursday showed bearish trend as the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 359 points, or 0.79pc, to close at 45,060 points.

More than 67 million shares of KSE-100 companies, worth over Rs6.4bn, were traded during the day.

The engineering sector dominated the session with 19.2m shares traded. Commercial banks and technology followed with 17.3m and 16.6m shares traded.

Stocks of 374 companies in all were traded on the exchange, of which 103 gained in value, whereas 252 declined and 19 remained unchanged.