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KARACHI – The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued to experience profit-taking on Wednesday, as the benchmark KSE-100 index closed at 40,544 points, marking a decline of 52 points from the previous day’s closing of 40,596.

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The benchmark KSE-100 index at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) demonstrated resilience by gaining 270 points on Tuesday, closing at 40,596 points compared to the previous day’s 40,326 points.

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KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) experienced a downturn of 561 points on Monday, closing at 40,327 points, down from the previous session’s 40,887 points, despite positive developments from the Government Summit in the UAE.

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KARACHI – The Pakistani equity market is poised to evaluate the potential for foreign investments as Prime Minister Imran Khan prepares for a visit to the UAE on February 10, followed by the anticipated visit of the Saudi Crown Prince to Pakistan on February 16, 2019.

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KARACHI – The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) experienced a notable downturn on Friday as the benchmark KSE-100 index fell by 445 points, closing at 40,887 points compared to the previous day’s 41,333 points.

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KARACHI – The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) experienced a significant downturn today as the benchmark KSE-100 index plummeted by 483 points or 1.17 percent at 12:00 PM, currently trading at 40,850 points.

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KARACHI: The equity market ended down by 173 points on Thursday amid positive activities in many scrips. The benchmark KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed at 41,333 points as against 41,506 points showing a decline of 173 points.

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KARACHI: The equity market fell by 109 points on Wednesday on buying activities in major scrips.

The benchmark KSE-100 index closed at 41,505 points as against 41,614 points showing a decline of 109 points.

Analysts at Arif Habib Limited said that market performed well today with an increase of 153 points but faced profit booking too causing the index to drop by 197 points.

Early on, the market leap frogged due to buying in Cement Sector, which saw volumes of 48 million by day end, followed by Chemical Sector.

Key scrips in Cement sector that generated trading volume include FCCL, MLCF and DGKC.

Among Chemical sector, EPCL traded ~6M shares however, the price declined by around three percent by sessions end.

Banks and Textile sector scrips remained on the back burner but value buying was observed.

Sectors contributing to the performance include Banks (-101 points), E&P (-38 points), O&GMCs (-35 points), Chemical (-16 points), Fertilizer (+56 points), Cement (-30 points), Autos (-26 points).

Volumes declined from 254 million shares to 205 million shares (-19 percent DoD).

Average traded value remained largely the same at US$71 million.

Stocks that contributed significantly to the volumes include FCCL, MLCF, DGKC, BOP, PIBTL and PASL, which formed 24 percent of total volumes.

Stocks that contributed positively include FFC (+26 points), EFERT (+17 points), INDU (+14 points), ENGRO (+13 points), and DGKC (+11 points).

Stocks that contributed negatively include HBL (-25 points), PPL (-24 points), BAHL (-23 points), OGDC (-23 points) and PSO (-17 points).

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