KARACHI: On Thursday, until mid day, KSE-100 Index was at 27168.07 with a positive change of 152.95 and volume of 120,439,240 shares.

High and Low were 27170.87 and 27015.12 respectively. Total volume traded in the market was 197,187,100 shares with 387 total traded companies out of which 276 were up, 103 were down and 8 were unchanged.

Construction and Materials (Cement) was the top traded sector with total traded volume of 49,848,300 shares. It was followed by Commercial Banks with a total traded volume of 36,462,200 shares.

The three top traded companies were Lafarge Pak. with a volume of 20,635,500 and price per share of 11.24 (0.84), Faysal Bank with a volume 12,398,500 of price per share of 14.15 (0.75), Azgard Nine with a volume 9,503,500 of price per share of 9.33 (0.24).

The top three advancers were Nestle Pak. with price per share 10500.00 (167.03), Island Textile with price per share of 1356.07 (64.57) and Sanofi-Aventis share of 886.60 (42.21).

The top three decliners were Wyeth Pak Ltd with price per share of 5000.00 (-190.48), Indus Dyeing with price per share of 1200.00 (-50.00) and Shezan Inter per share of 902.00 (-18.00).

Source: Business Recorder