Karachi (Staff Report): The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) started week with bullish trend as the benchmark KSE-100 Index gained 897 points (2.21 per cent) to close at 41,454 points.
The day's lowest point for the index remained at its opening level of 40,556, and it marked a high just slightly above the day's close at 41,514.
Of the 393 scrips traded in the day, 250 closed positive, 128 declined and 15 closed unchanged.
The day's top symbols by volume were Bank of Punjab (up 7.92pc with 63.4m shares traded), K-Electric (up 4.67pc with 44.1m shares traded), Lotte Chemical (down 1.31pc with 35.4m shares traded), Power Cement (up 10.77pc with 24.8m shares traded) and Engro Polymer (up 4.98pc with 21.8m shares traded).