On Friday at Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited, PMEX Commodity Index closed at 3,539. The traded value of metals, energy and COTS/FX was recorded at PKR 5.225 billion and the number of lots traded was 9,443.
Major business was contributed by gold amounting to PKR 1.678 billion, followed by DJ PKR 1.059 billion, currencies through COTS PKR 873.067 million, NSDQ 100 PKR 643.851 million, crude oil PKR 538.349 million, silver PKR 186.959 million, SP500 PKR 89.380 million, platinum PKR 66.430 million, Brent crude oil PKR 46.124 million, natural gas PKR 25.616 million, Japan equity PKR 9.468 million and copper PKR 7.918 million.
In agriculture commodities one lot of soybean amounting to PKR 7.292 million, one lot wheat amounting to PKR 4.742 million and 6 lots of cotton amounting to PKR 2.579 million were traded.