KARACHI – The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has surged to another unprecedented level after witnessing remarkable gains on Wednesday as buying-spree has intensified amid positive economic indicators and declining inflation.
The KSE-100 index has reached a new all-time high of 129,658.95 points after gaining 1459 points, a positive change of 1.14 percent.
The market is on the move, reflecting continued investor optimism and economic resilience, experts said.
On Tuesday, the 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued with bullish trend on Tuesday, gaining 2,572.11, a positive change of 2.05 percent, closing at 128,199.43 points as compared to 125,627.31 points on the last trading day.
A total of 1,032,756,027 shares were traded during the day as compared to 1,144,553,310 shares the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 44.008 billion against Rs 35.238 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 479 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 233 of them recorded gains and 206 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 40 companies remained unchanged.
Meanwhile, the headline inflation measured by Consumer Price Index (CPI) decelerated 3.2 percent during June 2025 as compared to 3.5 percent recorded during May 2025, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said in its weekly report.
According to PBS data, the CPI based inflation during the same month of last year (April 2024) was recorded at 12.6%.
On month-on-month basis, it increased by 0.2% in June 2025 as compared to a decrease of 0.2% in the previous month and an increase of 0.5% in June 2024.
CPI inflation Urban, decreased to 3.0% on year-on-year (YoY) basis in June 2025 as compared to 3.5% of the previous month and 14.9% in June 2024. On month-on-month (MoM) basis, it remained stable at 0.1% in June 2025 as compared to 0.1% in the previous month and 0.6% in June 2024.
CPI inflation Rural, increased by 3.6% on year-on-year basis in June 2025 as compared to an increase of 3.4% in the previous month and 9.3% in June 2024. On month-on-month basis, it increased by 0.5% in June 2025 as compared to a decrease of 0.5% in the previous month and an increase of 0.3% in June 2024.
