PSX lands in green as benchmark index gains 192 pts

January 31, 2019 (MLN): After yesterday's dull session, an upshot resulted in the index gaining approximately 192 points by the day end and closing in at 40,799 points, ahead of positive expectations from monetary policy scheduled to announce today.

Major sectors comprising of Pharmaceuticals, Oil & gas Marketing Companies, Fertilizer, Automobile Assembler and Transport benefitted the most as their combined contribution to the index amounted to 151 points. The scrips of SEARL (+3.82%), PIBTL (+7.64%), FFC (+1.18%), POL (+1.32%) and DAWH (+1.78%) earned the maximum gains.

Bounded within the range of 253 points, the index touched an intraday high of 40,860 points and an intraday low of 40,607 points.

Nearly 125.8 million shares were traded today for the scrips listed on the benchmark index with their total value recorded at Rs.7.2 billion.

Correspondingly, the broader KSE All Share index gained around 32 points by the day end and closed at 29,663 points.

An intraday high of 29,738 points and an intraday low of 29,602 points was recorded by the day end for the all share index with a range of 135 points.

Over 239 million shares of the scrips listed within the broader KSE All Share Index have been traded so far, with its value recorded at Rs.8.7 billion.

Total 334 companies’ transacted shares in the Stock Market today, out of which 228 recorded gains and 88 sustained losses whereas the share price of 18 companies remained unchanged.

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