July 26, 2019: The benchmark KSE 100 index has closed today’s first half of the trading session around 160 points below yesterday’s closing value, driven mainly by the fertilizer sector and the power generation and distribution sector.

The index began its downward journey at open and continued to lose points for the major part of session until it touched and intraday low of 32,233 points before recovering during the last 20 minutes to close at 32,286 points.

The total volume traded so far has crossed 27 million shares while the value of trade stands at Rs.717.5 million.

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