On Thursday, BRIndex30 opened at 7,388.79 and remained positive for most of the trading session except for one short dive into the red within an hour of market opening. It touched an intraday high of 7,476.11 and an intraday low of 7,370.18 and closed at 7,412.58, which is 23.79 points or 0.32 percent higher than yesterday's close.
Total volume was 42,347,351, which was 66.74 percent of KSE All share volume and 78.95 percent of KSE 100 volume. The KSE All Share volume was 63,452,764 and KSE100 Volume was 53,637,014. BR Commercial Banks Index closed at 2,162.17 with a net positive change of 10.8 or a percentage change of 0.5 and a total turnover of 13,657,338.
BR Cement Index closed at 643.86 with a net positive change of 3.89 or a percentage change of 0.61 and a total turnover of 3,301,814. BR Tech. & Comm. Index closed at 575.03 with a net negative change of -15.31 or a percentage change of -2.59 and a total turnover of 3,078,473.
BR Oil and Gas Index closed at 2,268.57 with a net negative change of -6.1 or a percentage change of -0.27 and a total turnover of 1,834,034. BR Power Generation and Distribution Index closed at 1,547.54 with a net positive change of 21.86 or a percentage change of 1.43 and a total turnover of 827,066.