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KARACHI: The equity market sharply increased by 1166 points or 2.8 percent on Thursday as concerns over war subsided after US president address.

The benchmark KSE-100 index closed at 42,523 points as against 41,358 points showing an increase of 1166 points.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that Post Trump address, most of the World stock markets performed well, as the concerns over war subsided.

Oil prices, which tanked overnight due to dampening war prospects, also gained foothold above $60/bbl, helping oil & gas chain to perform as well.

KSE-100 index went up around 1200 points during the session and closed up 1166 points. Around 306 stocks were in advance whereas 48 stocks were in decline.

At the opening bell, index went up by 636 points and kept going up throughout the session. Banking sector took the lion’s share with 81.2 million shares, followed by Technology (44.6 million) and Power (39.3 million).

Among scrips, BOP led the volumes with 53 million shares, followed by KEL (33.5 million) and UNITY (24.2 million).

Sectors contributing to the performance include Banks (+335 points), E&P (+135 points), Fertilizer (+129 points), Cement (+115 points) and Power (+108 points).

Volumes increased from 280mn shares to 362.5 million shares (+29 percent DoD). Average traded value also increased by 18 percent to reach US$ 88.8 million as against US$ 75.4 million.

Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes include BOP, KEL, UNITY, TRG and MLCF, which formed 37 percent of total volumes.

Stocks that contributed positively include HBL (+123 points), HUBC (+79 points), PPL (+62 points), LUCK (+62 points) and ENGRO (+48 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include DAWH (-13 points), PMPK (-5 points), SHFA (-3 points), JLICL (-2 points), and SCBPL (-1 points).

KARACHI: The stock market fell by 547 points on Wednesday following Iran attack on US bases in Iraq.

The benchmark KSE-100 index closed at 41,358 points as against 41,904 points showing a decline of 547 points.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that market took the toll of early morning Iranian strike on Iraqi Military base housing American soldiers.

Oil price went haywire with an initial surge towards $72/bbl, but gradually came down as Iranian government signaled an end to confrontation for the time being.

Oil & Gas chain bore the brunt of war hysteria and stock prices went down in early trading.

Later, as the nerves calm down, market staged a recovery erasing a loss of some 400 points and went positive 35 points.

Selling pressure built later during the day and market saw losses piling up -731 points.

MoC saw another recovery attempt that ended the session -547 points.

Banking sector led the volumes table with 54.9 million shares, followed by Power (44.8 million) and Cement (26.9 million). Among scrips, KEL traded 39.4 million shares, followed by BOP (38.2 million) and TRG (11.6 million).

Sectors contributing to negatively include Commercial Banks (-148 points), Oil and Gas Exploration Companies (-77 points), Power (-62 points), Fertilizer (-55 points) and O&GMCs (-37 points).

Volumes increased from 207.3 million shares to 280 million shares (+35 percent DoD). Average traded value also increased by 27 percent to reach US$ 75.4 million as against US$ 59.2 million.

Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes include KEL, BOP, TRG, MLCF and STPL, which formed 40 percent of total volumes.

Stocks that contributed negatively include HBL (-104 points), PPL (-49 points), HUBC (-42 points), FFC (-37 points) and NBP (-19 points). Stocks that contributed positively include DAWH (+37 points), LUCK (+32 points), and NATF (+11 points).

KARACHI: The equity market recovered 608 points on Tuesday in the aftermath of US-Iran confrontation and developing geopolitical situation.

The benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed at 41,904 points as against 41,296 points showing an increase of 608 points.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that in the aftermath of US-Iran confrontation and developing geo-political situation, world markets staged a recovery with an understandable decline in international crude prices.

The KSE-100 index also partially recovered the points lost yesterday with an increase of 649 points by the end of session.

Banks, OMCs, Refineries and Cement sectors remained in the limelight, with LUCK, PSO, ATRL and NRL hitting upper circuits by the end of session. Overall, OMCs saw largest volumes of 31.1 million shares, followed by Technology (21.9 million) and Cement (20.9 million).

Among scrips, HASCOL led the table with 19 million shares, followed by KEL (16 million) and STPL (12.3 million).

Sectors contributing to the performance include Banks (+205 points), Fertilizer (+83 points), Cement (+68 points), O&GMCs (+66 points) and Inv Banks (+61 points).

Volumes declined from 266.7 million shares to 206.9 million shares (-23 percent DoD). Average traded value also declined by 14 percent to reach US$ 59.2 million as against US$ 67.5 million.

Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes include HASCOL, KEL, STPL, TRG and UNITY, which formed 34 percent of total volumes.

Stocks that contributed positively include HBL (+93 points), LUCK (+60 points), DAWH (+56 points), PSO (+44 points) and ENGRO (+42 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include INDU (-16 points), NESTLE (-9 points), IGIHL (-5 points), MLCF (-3 points), and POL (-3 points).

KARACHI: The equity market fell by 1,027 points or 2.4 percent on Monday due to geo-political and regional security concerns.

The benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed at 41,296 points as against 42,323 points showing a decline of 1027 points.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said geo-political and regional security concerns took toll on market sentiment and investors resorted to selling.

Although crude price jumped significantly, with Arab Light trading near $73/bbl, Oil & Gas chain didn’t take any positive impact.

Power sector led the volumes with 52.6 million shares, followed by Banks (291 million) and Cement (22.8 million). Among scrips, KEL topped the chart with 46 million shares, followed by UNITY (17.6 million) and BOP (16.9 million).

Sectors contributing to the performance include Banks (-186 points), Fertilizer (-155 points), Cement (-111 points), E&P (-92 points) and Power (-85 points).

Volumes declined further from 322.9 million shares to 266.6 million shares (-17 percent DoD). Average traded value also declined by 29 percent to reach US$ 67.5 million as against US$ 94.8 million.

Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes include KEL, UNITY, BOP, TRG and FFL, which formed 38 percent of total volumes.

Stocks that contributed positively include JLICL (+4 points), DCR (+1 points), SCBPL (+0 points), COLG (+0 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include ENGRO (-97 points), HUBC (-65 points), LUCK (-53 points), PPL (-48 points), and FFC (-36 points).

KARACHI: The stock market likely to move with the development in mounting tension in the Middle East following killing of Iranian leader in US air strike.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that market to remain in the green zone next week. Oil scrips may manage to attract the limelight following renewed tension in the Middle East which is likely to fuel international oil prices.

Additionally, fresh portfolio allocations and inflow of funds with the advent of the New Year should support the momentum. The benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) is currently trading at a PER of 7.4x (2020) compared to Asia Pac regional average of 12.5x and while offering DY of ~6.4 percent versus ~2.7 percent offered by the region.

Overall optimism in the equity markets continued this week. Investors welcomed the New Year with a spectacular two-day rally of 1,746 points on the first two days of the New Year.

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s one day visit and continuously improving macros with further improvement in SBP reserves (+5.5 percent WoW) helped to sustain the bullish run of the KSE-100 Index.

Albeit, the last trading day witnessed profit taking in the wake of a US strike in Iraq to kill a key Iranian army commander. Inflation reading for Dec’19 settled at 12.63 percent YoY, declining 0.34 percent MoM. The KSE-100 Index settled at 42,323 points, up 1,475 points WoW.

Sector-wise positive contributions came from i) Commercial Banks (261 points), ii) Fertilizer (218 points), iii) Oil & Gas Exploration Companies (208 points), iv) Power Generation (184 points), and v) Cement (171 points). Whereas, negative sector-wise contribution came from Tobacco (27). Scrip-wise positive contributions were led by HUBC (138 points), LUCK (124 points), ENGRO (102 points), OGDC (85 points) and PSO (79 points).

Foreign selling continued this week clocking-in at USD 7.3 million compared to a net sell of USD 2.9 million last week. Selling was witnessed in Commercial Banks (USD 4.7 million) and Fertilizer (USD 1.4 million).

On the domestic front, major buying was reported by Mutual Funds (USD 8.6 million) and Banks/DFI (USD 4.2 million). Average Volumes settled at 282 million shares (up by 23 percent WoW) while average value traded clocked-in at USD 69 million (up by 29 percent WoW).

KARACHI: The equity market fell by 158 points on Friday owing to profit taking on the last trading day of the week.

The benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed at 42,323 points as against 42,481 points showing a decline of 158 points.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that the market opened on a positive note today with +334 points and 3.34 million volume traded. Oil chain reacted to the jump in international oil prices which went up on the news of US attack on Iranian military commander.

POL reacted the most to hike in oil prices. Similarly, among OMCs, PSO made a rapid ascent.

Majority of the stocks remained red by the end of session due to profit booking and concerns over regional security.

Among Banks, HBL and UBL remained under pressure. Technology sector led the volumes table with 43 million shares, followed by Banks (34.5 million) and Cement (33.2 million).

Among scrips, TRG topped the chart with 23.7 million shares, followed by UNITY (20.8M) and KEL (20.2 million).

Sectors contributing to the performance include E&P (+63 points), Fertilizer (-87 points), Banks (-77 points), Pharma (-18 points), Autos (-12 points).

Volumes declined over the day from 412.3 million shares to 322.9 million shares (-22 percent DoD). Average traded value also declined by 14 percent to reach US$ 94.8 million as against US$ 110.1 million.

Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes include TRG, UNITY, KEL, PAEL and FFL, which formed 30 percent of total volumes.

Stocks that contributed positively include POL (+34 points), OGDC (+33 points), MCB (+24 points), HUBC (+18 points) and BAHL (+16 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include HBL (-78 points), ENGRO (-74 points), UBL (-29 points), SEARL (-10 points), and MARI (-10 points).

KARACHI: The stock market gained 1,081 points on Thursday owing to positive outcome of tax amendment ordinance promulgated a day earlier.

The benchmark KSE-100 of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed at 42,481 points as against 41,400 points showing an increase of 1081 points.

The sentiments of the market was positive on tax incentives granted to foreign investors in domestic debt securities.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that second trading day of 2020 took the index to an even higher number with an increase of 1144 points and closing the session 1081 points.

Reasons that contributed to the performance of index were rumour of downward adjustment in NSS rates by a significant margin and buying activity from Banks and Foreign Fund, in addition to the recent release of a host of high index targets from various brokerage houses.

Buying activity was mainly observed in Banks, E&P and Cement Sectors.

Power sector led the volumes with 58.8 million shares, followed by Banks (58.1 million) and Cement (36.3 million).

Among scrips, KEL traded 46.8 million shares, followed by BOP (27.7 million) and FFL (21.4 million).

Sectors contributing to the performance include Banks (+332 points), E&P (+133 points), Power (+107 points), Cement (+95 points) and Fertilizer (+91 points).

Volumes increased from 330.7 million shares to 412.4 million shares (+24 percent DoD). Average traded value also increased by 111 percent to reach US$ 110.2 million as against US$ 52.1 million.

Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes include KEL, BOP, FFL, UNITY and PAEL, which formed 33 percent of total volumes.

Stocks that contributed positively include HUBC (+101 points), HBL (+85 points), ENGRO (+83 points), UBL (+73 points) and PPL (+67 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include KTML (-2 points), SHEL (-1 points), GSKCH (-1 points), POL (-1 points), and FHAM (-1 points).

KARACHI: The stock market gained 665 points on Wednesday to start the year 2020. The benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed at 41,400 points as against 40,735 points showing an increase of 665 points.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that the first day of 2020 started with a bang and contributed +665 points to the Index. During the session, the market went up by 809 points.

Buying activity was observed across the board especially in Banks and Cement sectors.

KEL saw highest trading volumes of 119 million shares, which was on the back of fuel adjustment recently announced by NEPRA.

Trading volumes also increased significantly over the day to 330 million shares, with the index crossing 41,500 points level. Power sector led the volumes with 121 million shares, followed by Technology (30.2 million) and Vanaspati (26.6 million). Among scrips, KEL led the table followed by UNITY (26.6 million) and FFL (17.5 million).

Sectors contributing to the performance include Banks (+277 points), Fertilizer (+93 points), E&P (+74 points), Cement (+46 points) and Inv Banks (+32 points).

Volumes increased from 177.1 million shares to 330.7 million shares (+86 percent DoD). Average traded value also increased by 14 percent to reach US$ 52.1 million as against US$ 45.7 million.

Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes include KEL, UNITY, FFL, AVN and TRG, which formed 55 percent of total volumes.

Stocks that contributed positively include HBL (+90 points), UBL (+74 points), ENGRO (+64 points), POL (+45 points) and MCB (+36 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include PAKT (-33 points), HUBC (-9 points), SHEL (-6 points), JLICL (-3 points), and APL (-1 points).

KARACHI: The benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) posted a return of 10 percent during year 2019.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that KSE-100 index posted a return of 9.9 percent YoY during CY19 while USD-based return clocked-in at negative 1.4 percent.

First positive return after two years of consecutive negative returns, the analysts said.

Barring the last couple of months, CY19 was nothing short of a horror story for the equity market with a dominating bearish trend. During the year, the KSE-100 index crashed to a 5-Yr low of 28,765 points on August 16, 201919, which was a 22 percent contraction since December 2018 and a 31 percent decline on a YoY basis.

Stringent conditions attached with the USD 6 billion IMF bailout package such as 40 percent higher FBR tax revenue target, currency depreciation, cap on sovereign guarantees, electricity and gas tariff hikes were the sources of pessimism during the outgoing year.

Meanwhile, tension on the border with India following the air combat in Feb’19 had its own adverse effects on the overall sentiment.

Albeit, the domestic equity bourse showed a sharp inflection post its low in August 2019.

Till date, since its low the market has shown a remarkable rebound of 42 percent, and in effect turning the CY return positive.

Undoubtedly, dirt cheap valuations across the index and over-selling were pivotal factors for the impressive market performance but we see the economy entering into stabilization mode as a more sustainable and important reason.

Analysts at Topline Securities said that KSE-100 index during 4Q2019 recorded growth of 8,656 points/27 percent; which is the highest quarterly gain achieved by index since 3QCY09 to close at level of 40,735.

The recovery in equities was mainly led by improved macroeconomic factors which included 1) declining bond yields leading investors towards equities, 2) stable PKR/USD exchange rate, 3) Positive first quarterly review by IMF, 4) foreign investment in local debt securities, 5) anticipation of policy rate cut in 1H2020 & 6) current account surplus of USD70 million recorded in month of October.

Political uncertainty as always remained a key concern during the quarter. Departure of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif to London, conditional extension to COAS for 6 months by supreme court and decision of death penalty to ex president Musharraf by special court were the main highlights.