PSX starts week with bullish trend

PSX starts week with bullish trend

Karachi (Staff Report): The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) started the week with bullish trend as the benchmark KSE-100 index gained only 25 points to close at 41,649 points.

The index peaked at 41,913 and hit a day's low of 41,591 while trading sideways for most of the session.

In all, 88.5 million shares worth Rs3.7 billion were traded at the exchange. Of the 306 traded scrips, 111 advanced, 173 declined and 22 remained unchanged.

Commercial banks dominated trading with 14.5m shares traded while chemical and cement sectors followed with 9.3m and 9.1m shares traded respectively.