Index up by 144.53 points by Mid Day

By MG News | May 07, 2018 at 12:37 PM GMT+05:00

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The benchmark KSE 100 Index currently trading at 44,681.21, positive by 144.53 points. Up till now, the index posted a day high of 44,763.37 and a day low of 44,498.40.

Oil and gas Exploration sector companies added 129.11 points to the index as oil prices are up in the International market.

Engro is up by 29.54 points, as its material information is disclosed in which it has been announced that Engro is investing USD 21,375,000 in ordinary shares of Siddiqsons Energy Limited to develop a coal fired power generation plant of 330MW approximately.

Fertilizer sector is up because due to the shortage of urea, some fertilizer prices have increased.

Textile sector is down today as Textile sector has shown dissatisfaction over the budget for 2018-2019 as their proposals including abolishment of Export Development Surcharge, disbursement of exporters' refunds and reduction in tariff of electricity and gas were not accommodated.

The banking sector companies are down today by 53.37 points.

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Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	128,199.43 336.91M	2.05% 2572.11
ALLSHR	79,787.62 1,023.63M	1.53% 1202.91
KSE30	39,105.00 121.90M	2.49% 951.21
KMI30	186,915.61 131.16M	1.10% 2029.11
KMIALLSHR	54,201.88 553.60M	0.81% 438.07
BKTi	33,476.68 51.49M	4.87% 1555.00
OGTi	27,962.58 9.77M	0.68% 188.60

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	105,735.00	106,200.00 105,625.00	-15.00 -0.01%
BRENT CRUDE	67.09	67.29 67.06	-0.02 -0.03%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	97.50	97.50 97.50	0.70 0.72%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	103.80	103.80 103.80	-3.45 -3.22%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	998.50	998.50 998.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	65.38	65.65 65.34	-0.07 -0.11%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	15.70	16.21 15.55	-0.50 -3.09%