KARACHI: Benchmark KSE-100 Index closed in the red (43,353) on week’s third trading day shedding 337 points due to political noise and increasing pressure on foreign exchange reserves.
Rs. 7.8b worth of 207m shares were traded today. Value of the shares of 270 companies augmented, 77 plummeted, while 14 remained stagnant.
Communication, Chemical, Food & Personal Care Products Sectors led the trading today with 27.3m, 22.3m and 20.3m shares respectively.
Today’s top five leaders of shares were: Unity Foods Ltd., 11.5m shares (-4.48pc); Fauji Foods Ltd., 11.4m shares (-4.98pc); K-Electric Ltd., 10.7m shares (-2.74pc); WorldCall Telecom, 9.7m shares (-4.25pc); Azgard Nine: 9.6m shares (-1.38pc).