On Wednesday at Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited, PMEX Commodity Index closed at 4,266.

The traded value of Metals, Energy and COTS/FX was recorded at PKR 5.321 billion and the number of lots traded was 7,211.

Major business was contributed by gold amounting to PKR 1.886 billion, followed by crude oil PKR 856.566 million, silver PKR 663.039 million, NSDQ100 PKR 406.650 million, platinum PKR 378.823 million, currencies through COTS PKR 355.272 million, palladium PKR 323.805 million, copper PKR 182.717 million, DJ PKR 181.066 million, SP500 PKR 49.565 million, natural gas PKR 30.635 million and Brent crude oil PKR 6.968 million.

In agriculture commodities 6 lots of cotton amounting to PKR 8.045 million were traded.