Karachi (Staff Report): Pakistan Stocks Exchange (PSX) continued their jubilant ride as the KSE-100 Index gained 567.48 points to reach 49851.13 points on the last day of the week.
KSE-100 Index volumes rose to136.7 million shares, while values clocked in at Rs13.2 billion.
Shares of 390 companies were traded. At the end of the day, 217 stocks closed higher and 152 declined while 21 remained unchanged. The value of shares traded during the day was Rs17.7 billion.
Major index movers were UBL (+4.61%), Lucky Cement (+3.87%), HBL (+2.18%), MCB (+4.05%) and Engro (+2.57%) as they cumulatively contributed +408 points to the index.
