AGL 35.64 Decreased By ▼ -0.06 (-0.17%)
AIRLINK 131.50 Decreased By ▼ -2.00 (-1.5%)
BOP 5.02 Increased By ▲ 0.05 (1.01%)
CNERGY 3.99 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.99%)
DCL 8.51 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (1.07%)
DFML 47.65 Increased By ▲ 0.25 (0.53%)
DGKC 74.89 Decreased By ▼ -0.11 (-0.15%)
FCCL 24.60 Increased By ▲ 0.35 (1.44%)
FFBL 47.90 Increased By ▲ 1.90 (4.13%)
FFL 8.98 Increased By ▲ 0.05 (0.56%)
HUBC 147.72 Decreased By ▼ -6.38 (-4.14%)
HUMNL 11.07 Increased By ▲ 0.07 (0.64%)
KEL 4.05 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.25%)
KOSM 8.20 Decreased By ▼ -0.68 (-7.66%)
MLCF 33.01 Increased By ▲ 0.26 (0.79%)
NBP 57.76 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.07%)
OGDC 143.35 Increased By ▲ 0.55 (0.39%)
PAEL 26.10 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (0.35%)
PIBTL 5.84 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-1.35%)
PPL 115.66 Increased By ▲ 1.06 (0.92%)
PRL 24.25 Increased By ▲ 0.10 (0.41%)
PTC 11.59 Increased By ▲ 0.12 (1.05%)
SEARL 58.21 Increased By ▲ 0.21 (0.36%)
TELE 7.65 Decreased By ▼ -0.06 (-0.78%)
TOMCL 41.32 Increased By ▲ 0.18 (0.44%)
TPLP 8.47 Decreased By ▼ -0.20 (-2.31%)
TREET 15.32 Increased By ▲ 0.24 (1.59%)
TRG 58.45 Decreased By ▼ -1.45 (-2.42%)
UNITY 28.12 Increased By ▲ 0.12 (0.43%)
WTL 1.34 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.74%)
BR100 8,557 Increased By 97 (1.15%)
BR30 27,064 Decreased By -204.2 (-0.75%)
KSE100 81,903 Increased By 1442 (1.79%)
KSE30 25,918 Increased By 449.5 (1.76%)

US stocks rose on Thursday after a Wall Street Journal report that Bank of America is in talks to buy mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp sent financial stocks higher. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 73.64 points, or 0.58 percent, at 12,808.95.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 4.78 points, or 0.34 percent, at 1,413.91. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 2.15 points, or 0.09 percent, at 2,476.70. Shares of Countrywide surged more than 60 percent to $8.23 on the NYSE.

Copyright Reuters, 2008

Comments

Comments are closed.