{"id":36356,"date":"2026-01-16T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36356"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:04:14","slug":"kse-100-soars-3600-points-as-bulls-dominate-on-geopolitical-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36356","title":{"rendered":"KSE-100 soars 3,600 points as bulls dominate on geopolitical calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed on a strong bullish note on Friday\u00a0with the KSE-100 Index settling at 185,099, up 3,643 points as geopolitical calm fuelled market momentum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Market momentum strengthened as geopolitical uncertainty eased following the US President\u2019s statement indicating reduced chances of escalation in the Middle East, prompting across-the-board buying,&#8221; said Ali Najib, Deputy Head of Trading at Arif Habib Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>On the macro front, petrol\u00a0and high-speed diesel\u00a0prices remained unchanged at Rs253.17 per litre and Rs257.08 per litre, respectively, as lower ex-refinery prices were offset by higher petroleum levies, while the\u00a0Inland Freight Equalisdation Margin edged down slightly. Oil marketing company\u00a0margins stayed flat at Rs7.87 per litre, with prices effective from 16\u201331 Jan 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u00a0output of Large Scale Manufacturing Industries\u00a0grew 10.4% in Nov\u201925. The Sensitive Price Indicator\u00a0for the week ended on Thursday\u00a0rose 3.87% and 0.25% yearly and weekly basis respectively.<\/p>\n<p>OGDC, PPL, HUBC, ENGROH, and FFC led index gains, contributing 1,389 points. Market participation remained healthy, with volumes crossing 956 million shares and turnover Rs69 billion. AHCL topped the volume chart with 72.9m\u00a0shares traded.<\/p>\n<p>The PSX experienced a week of consolidation, as the KSE-100 Index posted a modest gain of 689 points. The index opened the week at 180,045, touched an intraday high of 185,209, and recorded a low of 180,590 before ultimately settling at 185,099.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the market may retest 187,905 (an all-time high) next week, provided geopolitical calm persists.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed on a strong bullish note on Friday\u00a0with the KSE-100 Index settling at 185,099, up 3,643 points as geopolitical calm fuelled market momentum. &#8220;Market momentum strengthened as geopolitical uncertainty eased following the US President\u2019s statement indicating reduced chances of escalation in the Middle East, prompting across-the-board buying,&#8221; said Ali Najib, [&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-36356","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\/36356","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=36356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}