KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange has witnessed a volatile trading session on Friday as the markets ended the session in the red as investors continued booking profits at higher levels.
Benchmark KSE 100-Index declined by 0.25 percent, or 105.14 points, to close at 41,701.23 points as compared with 41,806.37 points of Thursday.
The main index hit in a medium range of 498.79 points as it touched an intraday peak of 42,100.73 points as against an intraday trough of 41,601.94 points.
The trading board presented a mixed look on Friday as the KSE All-Share Index improved slightly by 0.13 percent, or 38.77 points, to close at 29,636.11 points, the KSE 30-Index trimmed down by 0.30 percent, or 52.86 points, to end at 17,605.68 points, the KMI 30-Index deflated by 0.56 percent, or 373.21 points, to conclude at 66,558.61 points, whereas the Islamic All-Share Index increased by 0.21 percent, or 44.43 points, to finish the trading week at 20,790.12 points.
Market value slightly surged 2.08 percent to close at 15.423 billion rupees as against Thursday’s closing figure of 15.109 billion rupees.
Hascol Petroleum Limited, Unity Foods Limited, and Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited were the leading traded companies with turnovers of 57.515 million shares, 47.496 million shares, and 28.432 million shares respectively.
Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited came out as the top performer of the day with an increment of 1,040.00 rupees per share to close at 15,000.00 rupees while on the other hand, Murree Brewery Company Limited led the worst performers with a decrement of 48.75 rupees per share to finish the final trading session at 601.25 rupees.
