LAHORE: Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) witnessed bullish trend by gaining 68.99 points, as the LSE Index-25 opened with 5140.00 points and closed at 5208.99 points. The market’s overall situation, however, did not correspond to an upward trend as it remained at 3.569 million shares to close against previous turnover of 5.465 million shares, showing a downward slide of 1.896 million shares.
While, out of the total 117 active scrips 33 moved up, 15 shed values and 69 remained equal. The major gainers of the day were Pakistan State Oil Company Limited, Treet Corporation Limited and Highnoon Laboratories Limited by recording increase in their per share value by Rs 6.50, Rs 6.30 and Rs 5.56, respectively. Attock Refinery Limited, The Hub Power Company Limited and The Bank of Punjab Limited lost their per share value by Rs 2.49, Re 0.52 and Re 0.29 respectively. Top three Volume Leaders of the day included The Bank of Punjab (R1) with 1.277 million shares, The Bank of Punjab Limited with 678,500 shares and Lafarge Pakistan Cement with 386,000 shares.