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PSX: Bourse closes in the green as bulls shoo-off the bears on week’s second trading day!

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KARACHI: The bourse closed in the green (40,459) today when Benchmark KSE-100 Index gained 232 points.

Rs. 5.2b worth of 102m shares changed hands today. Value of the shares of 148 companies augmented, 145 plummeted, while 21 remained stagnant.

With trading of 15.8m shares Textile Spinning Sector led the market. Top five leaders of today’s trading were Unity Foods(R),13.0m shares (+26.60pc); TRG Pak Ltd., 7.3m shares (+1.84pc); Pak Elektron, 4.9m shares (+2.50pc); Dost Steels Ltd., 39.m shares (-1.27pc).

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.