{"id":35294,"date":"2026-01-09T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35294"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:04:13","slug":"profit-booking-drags-psx-down-1133-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35294","title":{"rendered":"Profit-booking drags PSX down 1,133 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) ended the week on a bearish note as investors opted to book profits ahead of the weekend, dragging the benchmark KSE-100 Index into negative territory for most of the session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;KSE-100 Index largely traded in the negative zone during the trading session to close at 184,410 level (down by -0.61%), as investors preferred to book profits before the weekend,&#8221; Topline market review noted.<\/p>\n<p>pic.twitter.com\/giwjCMUqt2<br \/>\n\u2014 PSX (@pakstockexgltd) January 9, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Top negative contributions to the index came from HUBC, LUCK, ENGROH, NBP, EFERT and OGDC, as they cumulatively contributed -596 points to the index.<\/p>\n<p>Traded value-wise, FFC (PKR.2.14bn), PPL (PKR.1.88bn), PAEL (PKR.1.83bn), FFL (PKR.1.68bn), NBP (PKR.1.67bn) and SYS (PKR.1.64bn) dominated the trading activity.<\/p>\n<p>Traded volume and value for the day stood at 1.02bn shares and PKR.52.76bn, respectively.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) ended the week on a bearish note as investors opted to book profits ahead of the weekend, dragging the benchmark KSE-100 Index into negative territory for most of the session. &#8220;KSE-100 Index largely traded in the negative zone during the trading session to close at 184,410 level (down by -0.61%), [&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-35294","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\/35294","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=35294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}