Stock market gains 506 points

ISLAMABAD   –   The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Monday started with bullish trend, gaining 506.02 points, with positive change of 1.13 percent, closing at 45,407.33 points against 44,901.31 points on the last working day. A total of 440,989,923 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 484,637,342 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs22.091 billion against Rs21.832 billion previous day. As many as 404 companies’ transacted shares in the stock market, 175 of them recorded gain and 213 sustained losses whereas the share price of 16 companies remained unchanged. The three top traded companies were Byco Petroleum with a volume of 68,673,500  shares and price per share of Rs10.04, Pak Refinery with a volume of 40,900,000  and price per share of Rs25.31 and Hascol Petrol with volume of 38,583,277 and price per share of Rs10.48.

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