The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remained bearish for the second straight day on Tuesday amid uncertainty over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index shedding 715.13 points (-1.52 percent) to close at 46,399.91 points.
The market opened on a positive note and gained around 60 points before switching towards the red green where it remained till end of the session.
The KSE-100 Index moved in a range of 867.5 points, showing an intraday high of 47,174.4 points and a low of 46,306.9 points.
Among other indices, the KSE All Share Index shed 458.95 points (-1.43 percent) to close at 31,673.34 points, while All Share Islamic Index shed 340.46 points (-1.49 percent) to close at 22,479.24 points.
A total of 369 companies traded shares in the stock exchange, out of them shares of 53 closed up, shares of 299 closed down while shares of 17 companies remained unchanged.
Out of 94 traded companies in the KSE-100 Index, 10 closed up, 82 closed down and two remained unchanged. The overall market volumes increased by 69.80 million to 434.69 million shares.
Total volumes traded for the KSE-100 Index were 130.93 million shares. The number of total trades increased by 19,242 to 155,291, while the value traded increased by Rs1.48 billion to Rs14.26 billion.—TLTP
