The Pakistan Stock Exchange closed lower as negative sentiments prevailed in the market on Wednesday.

The benchmark KSE-100 Index shed 250.73 points or 0.39% to settle at 63,919.84 levels at the closing of the market.

The KSE-30 Index shed 114.84 points or 0.54% to reach 21,340.87 at the closing of the trading session.

A total of 636,168,115 shares valuing Rs17.98 billion were traded during the day, compared with 448,990,545 shares valuing Rs12.281 billion in the last trading day.

As many as 361 companies transacted their shares in the stock market; 155 of them recorded gains and 183 sustained losses, while the share prices of 23 remained unchanged.

The three top-trading companies were K-Electric with 151,248,373 shares at Rs5.72 per share, Hascol Petrol with 67,980,000 shares at Rs8.53 per share and WorldCall Telecom with 42,068,813 shares at Rs1.43 per share.