KARACHI: On Monday at Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited, PMEX Commodity Index closed at 4,538. The traded value of metals, energy and COTS/FX was recorded at PKR 10.206 billion and the number of lots traded was 9,992.

Major business was contributed by gold amounting to PKR 6.330 billion, followed by NSDQ 100 PKR 1.038 billion, silver PKR 978.531 million, currencies through COTS PKR 812.503 million, DJ PKR 383.846 million, platinum PKR 250.637 million, crude oil PKR 232.305 million, natural gas PKR 99.135 million, SP500 PKR 44.371 million and copper PKR 35.999 million.

In agriculture commodities, 4 lots of wheat amounting to PKR 17.663 million, one lots of corn amounting to PKR 2.839 million and 3 lots of cotton amounting to PKR 1.570 million were traded.

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