ISLAMABAD: The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) turned around Tuesday and witnessed bullish trend, gaining 457.17 points, with a positive change of 1.02 per cent, closing at 45,274.93 points against 44,817.76 points on the last working day.

A total of 364,860,378 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 301,392,634 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 14.026 billion against Rs 11.177 billion the previous day.

As many as 556 companies’ transacted shares in the stock market, 408 of them recorded gain and 127 sustained losses whereas the share price of 21 companies remained unchanged.

The three top trading companies were Telecard limited with a volume of 35,843,500 shares and price per share of Rs17.38, Byco Petroleum with a volume of 33,641,500 and price per share of Rs7.84 and WorldCall Telecom with volume of 22,144,000 and price per share of Rs2.91.

Indus Motor CoXD witnessed a maximum increase of Rs 26.86 per share, closing at Rs 1162.86. The runner up was Abbott Lab, the share prices of which climbed up by Rs 26.16 to Rs781.83.

Unilever FoodsXD witnessed maximum decrease of Rs1165 per share, closing at Rs19000, followed by Colgate PalmXDXB, the share prices of which declined by Rs 140 per share to Rs2340.