{"id":16020,"date":"2025-08-07T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:04:13","slug":"psx-maintains-bullish-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16020","title":{"rendered":"PSX maintains bullish trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) extended its upward momentum during intra-day trading on Thursday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 823.10 points, current index at 145,911.59 \u2014 up 0.57% from the previous close of 145,088.49.<\/p>\n<p>The index touched an intraday high of 146,053.43 and a low of 145,250.17.<\/p>\n<p>Total trading volume stood at 171.85 million shares, while the market value reached PKR 20.41 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The market remained largely stable during the session, indicating sustained buying interest and institutional support.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0PSX maintains record-shattering streak<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday,\u00a0PSX remained unstoppable on Wednesday as the KSE-100 index surged past 145,000 points, marking a new milestone in its record-shattering drive.<\/p>\n<p>The momentum was largely driven by banks and optimism about a positive outcome of the recent Pakistan-US trade agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Arif Habib Corp MD Ahsan Mehanti observed that stocks reached a new all-time high amid an upbeat economic outlook. &#8220;Strong rupee, rising global oil prices and government measures for incentivising remittances and power sector reforms fuelled the bullish close at the PSX, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>KTrade Securities analyst Ahmed Sheraz commented that the stock market continued its bullish streak, with the KSE-100 index gaining 2,051 points day-on-day to close at a new all-time high of 145,088. Banks remained key drivers of the rally.<\/p>\n<p>JS Global analyst Muhammad Hasan Ather said that investor optimism was fuelled by corporate earnings, improving economic indicators and expectations of supportive government policies.<\/p>\n<p>Gains were broad-based, led by banking, energy and fast-moving consumer goods sectors, he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) extended its upward momentum during intra-day trading on Thursday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 823.10 points, current index at 145,911.59 \u2014 up 0.57% from the previous close of 145,088.49. The index touched an intraday high of 146,053.43 and a low of 145,250.17. Total trading volume stood at 171.85 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}