The KSE-100 index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Tuesday turned around and witnessed bullish trend, gaining 370.84 points, with positive change of 0.81 percent, closing at 45,964.27 points against 45,593.43 points on the last working day.
A total 399,187,389 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 368,389,975 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs.22.969 billion against Rs.18.392 billion previous day.
As many as 417 companies transacted shares in the stock market, 274 of them recorded gain and 125 sustained losses whereas the share price of 18 companies remained unchanged.
The three top traded companies were TRG Pak Ltd with a volume of 38,336,947 shares and price per share of Rs 141.49, Azgard Nine with a volume of 31,310,000 and price per share of Rs.31.43 and Aisha Steel Mill with volume of 29,530,500 and price per share of Rs23.78.
Island Textile witnessed maximum increase of Rs.135 per share, closing at Rs.1940 while Bata (Pak) shares increased by Rs.95.87 per share closing at Rs.1935.87.
Wyeth Pak Ltd recorded maximum decrease of Rs.49.60 per share, closing at Rs.935.40 whereas Gatron Industries was runner up with the decrease of Rs.44.24 per share, closing at Rs.545.75.