Full-day report: Stocks slide amidst sustained selling pressure
The Pakistan Stock Exchange saw renewed selling pressure on the penultimate trading session of the week, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index losing 507 points, more than 1pc, to once again close below the 48,000 points level at 47,950.58.
More than 88.6 million shares of indexed companies were traded, worth more than Rs8.37 billion.
377 symbols were traded, of which 97 advanced, 261 declined and 20 remained unchanged. Total traded volume was flattish from the day ago at 233.39m shares, but total value increased to Rs12.05bn.
Commercial banks led volumes, followed by chemicals, engineering, technology and communication and oil and gas marketing stocks.
Volumes were led by:
Aisha Steel Mill: 20.02m shares traded (-3.71pc)
Lotte Chemical: 17.12m shares traded (+2.67pc)
Sui Southern Gas: 14.22m shares traded (+4.19pc)
TRG Pak Ltd: 14.11m shares traded (-3.93pc)
Azgard Nine Ltd: 8.75m shares traded (-1.35pc)
