KARACHI: Due to selling in various sectors, a bearish trend continued on Pakistan Stock Exchange Tuesday.
BRIndex100 lost 42.61 points or 0.97 percent to close at 4,359.74 points. BRIndex100 hit intraday high of 4,401.03 and intraday low of 4,343.48 points. Volumes stood at 410.066 million shares.
BRIndex30 decreased by 234.84 points or 1.05 percent to close at 22,212.05 points with a turnover of 238.907 million shares.
The KSE-100 Index declined by 345.23 points or 0.82 percent and closed below 42,000 level at 41,828.91 points. Daily trading volumes increased to 441.286 million shares as compared to 433.941 million shares traded on Monday.
Foreign investors remained on the selling side and withdrew $3.310 million from the Pakistan capital market. Total market capitalization declined by Rs 61 billion to Rs 7.831 trillion. Out of total 428 active scrips, 288 closed in negative and 121 in positive while the value of 19 stocks remained unchanged.
Hascol Petroleum was the volume leader with 31.356 million shares however lost Rs 0.65 to close at Rs 20.91 followed by Aisha Steel Mill that gained Rs 0.94 to close at Rs 16.43 with 30.902 million shares.
Indus Dyeing and Murree Brewery were the top gainers increasing by Rs 37.87 and Rs 34.61 respectively to close at Rs 542.88 and Rs 663.11 while Colgate Palmolive and Sapphire Textile were the top losers declining by Rs 69.93 and Rs 41.51 respectively to close at Rs 2900.07 and Rs 850.00.
BR Automobile Assembler Index plunged by 98.86 points or 1.24 percent to close at 7,874.55 points with total turnover of 3.840 million shares.
BR Cement Index gained 10.8 points or 0.18 percent to close at 5,966.48 points with 41.133 million shares.
BR Commercial Banks Index declined by 92.87 points or 1.1 percent to close at 8,385.25 points with 38.872 million shares.
BR Power Generation and Distribution Index fell by 126.22 points or 2.46 percent to close at 5,002.34 points with 43.152 million shares.
BR Oil and Gas Index lost 61.48 points or 1.47 percent to close at 4,132.63 points with 38.969 million shares.
BR Tech. & Comm. Index closed at 1,963.88 points, down 10.57 points or 0.54 percent with 44.711 million shares.
An analyst at Arif Habib Limited said that the market lost a total of 502 points during the session, closing at minus 345 points.
Selling pressure was observed across-the-board, post issuance of Monetary Policy, which saw policy rate constant at 7 percent.
Negativity in international and regional stock markets seeped into Pakistan equities as well, though the reasons are apparently different.
Banking sector caused most of the decline in index, primarily due to status quo on policy rate, which did not compensate recent buyers in banking sector.
Main board scrips relatively underperformed and stay laggard, whereas small caps as ASL, STCL and a couple of cement stocks performed on the back of near term positive outlook.
Technology stocks realized a total trading volume of 44.6 million shares, followed by Power (43.1 million shares) and Cement (41.6 million shares).
Sectors contributing to the performance include Banks (down 99 points), E&P (down 76 points), Power (down 63 points), Fertilizer (down 54 points) and O&GMCs (down 30 points).
Stocks that contributed positively to the index include DAWH (up 31 points), MUREB (up 10 points), CHCC (up 6 points), MLCF (up 6 points) and DGKC (up 5 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include HUBC (down 43 points), PPL (down 30 points), ENGRO (down 28 points), HBL (down 27 points) and UBL (down 22 points).
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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