KARACHI: Pakistan stocks ended up by 614 points on Friday as the country received Letter of Intent (LoI) for IMF loan.
The benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) ended 42,857 points from previous day’s closing of 42,243 points, showing the gain of 614 points.
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Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that the market opened in the positive zone although investors’ participation remained dull throughout the opening session.
“The bulls made a comeback in the second session for value hunting across the board after Pakistan received the letter of intent from the International Monetary Fund for the extended fund facility.”
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Main board volumes continued to remain healthy although hefty volumes were witnessed in the 3rd tier stocks.
Sectors contributing to the performance include Banks (+149.3 points), E&P’s (+115.2 points), Automobile Assemblers (+46.3 points), Fertilizer (+40.3 points) and OMC’s (37.5 points).
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Volumes increased from 281.7 million shares to 373.9 million shares (+32.7 per cent DoD). Average traded value also increased by 36.1 per cent to reach US$ 49.3 million as against US$ 36.2 million.
Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes are CNERGY, WTL, PRL, HASCOL and LOTCHEM.
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