PSX starts week with bearish trend

PSX starts week with bearish trend

Karachi (Staff report): Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) started the week with bearish trend as the benchmark KSE-100 Index shed 57 points to close at 46,581 points.

In all, 202.8 million shares worth Rs 8.4 billion were traded at the exchange as trading dampened compared to last week. Of the 373 traded scrips, 184 advanced, 166 declined and 23 remained unchanged.

The cement sector took the lead today with 35.5m shares traded, while chemicals followed with 30.2m shares.