Stock market continues yesterday’s positivity

KARACHI: Yesterday (Wednesday), the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) posted 732.08 points gain, ending the trading session at an unprecedented 74,531.19 points level.

PSX hits record high, closes with 732-point gain

Throughout the trading day, the benchmark KSE-100 index exhibited positivity, hitting an intraday highest of 74,575.31 points. Today the index opened at yesterday’s closing, and quickly gained 356 points to hover around 74,887.57 points within an hour of trading.

The bulk of the growth on Wednesday came from the insurance and energy sectors. Around 10 AM, this is how the index looked like: