KARACHI: The bearish trend continued till midday as the Pakistan Stock Exchange benchmark 100-index shed 430 points to reach 52207 points level on Monday.
Earlier, the stocks opened bearish shedding 262 points to drop to 52374 points level in early trading.
On Friday, market started on a positive note, but very quickly stocks witnessed profit booking on account of which KSE 100-index closed at 52,637 points level after declining by 232.14 points. Overall volume increased to 413m shares compared to 409m shares of the previous day. Traded value deceased to Rs21b/$197m.