ISLAMABAD: The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed bullish trend On Monday, gaining 229.17 points, with a positive change of 0.49 per cent, closing at 47,365.70 points against 47,136.53 points on the last working day.

A total of 382,645,112 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 382,373,497 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs12.331 billion against Rs12.295 billion the previous day.

As many as 605 companies’ transacted shares in the stock market, 309 of them recorded gain and 200 sustained losses whereas the share price of 96 companies remained unchanged.

The three top trading companies were Byco Petroleum with a volume of 42,954,000 shares and price per share of Rs9.44, Ghani Glo Hol with a volume of 29,887,500 and price per share of Rs42.40 and WorldCall Telecom with volume of 26,783,000 and price per share of Rs3.22.

Rafhan Maize witnessed maximum increase of Rs225 per share, closing at Rs10250. Bata (Pak) was runner up, share prices of which increased by Rs114.50, closing at Rs1749.50.

Colgate Palm recorded a maximum decrease of Rs44.69 per share, closing at Rs2705.31 followed by Wyeth Pak Limited the prices of which declined by Rs39.90 per share, closing at Rs1834.99.