On Friday at Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited, PMEX Commodity Index closed at 3,718. The traded value of metals, energy and COTS/FX was recorded at PKR 6.385 billion and the number of lots traded was 20,536.
Major business was contributed by crude oil amounting to PKR 2.168 billion, followed by gold PKR 1.759 billion, currencies through COTS PKR 560.664 million, NSDQ 100 PKR 460.958 million, silver PKR 407.808 million, DJ PKR 388.460 million, Brent crude oil PKR 356.213 million, Japan equity PKR 86.144 million, natural gas PKR 77.582 million, SP500 PKR 61.873 million, platinum PKR 33.049 million and copper PKR 24.950 million.
In agriculture commodities 2 lots of soybean amounting to PKR 14.317 million, 3 lots of wheat amounting to PKR 13.743 million and 2 lots of cotton amounting to PKR 0.841 million were traded.