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PSX sees minor gains on US-Iran war uncertainty
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday recorded marginal increases as uncertainty prevailed over talks to end the war between the US and Iran.
The KSE-100 Index closed at 178,406.69 points, up 206.67 points over the last close.
The market opened the day at 178,200.02 points, the previous closing level, and traded between 178,768.83 points intraday high and 178,023.65 points intraday low.
The benchmark KSE-100 Index a day before staged a tremendous rebound by adding 2,105.91 points, a positive shift of 1.20 percent, to close at 178,200.02 points against 176,094.12 points recorded in the previous trading session.
The ready market saw a volume of 785.361 million shares as opposed to 880.951 million shares a day earlier while the traded value jumped to Rs33.140 billion as compared to Rs24.957 billion.
The market capitalisation rose to Rs19.953 trillion against Rs19.755 trillion a day ago.