KARACHI: Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) 100 index closed lower on Tuesday having 26240.41 shares with a negative change of 14.80 and volume of 144,533,820 shares.

High and Low were 26372.56 and 26108.74 respectively. Total volume traded in the market was 222,959,640 shares with 393 total traded companies out of which 167 were up, 209 were down and 17 were unchanged.

Commercial Banks was the top traded sector with total traded volume of 51,028,000 shares. It was followed by Financial Services with a total traded volume of 42,574,000 shares.

The three top traded companies were Lafarge Pak. with a volume of 19,604,000 and price per share of 10.97 (0.73), Engro Fertilize Ltd. with a volume 11,465,000 of price per share of 51.46 (2.18), Azgard Nine with a volume 10,739,000 of price per share of 9.00 (0.39).

The top three advancers were Rafhan Maize with price per share 6683.25 (318.25), Siemens PakistanXD with price per share of 1323.00 (63.00) and Bata (Pak) share of 3100.00 (42.50).

The top three decliners were Nestle Pak. with price per share of 10182.50 (-114.00), Island Textile with price per share of 1423.25 (-74.90) and Shezan Inter per share of 838.42 (-40.58).

Source: Business Recorder