The market's overall situation, however, did not correspond to an upward trend as it remained at 1.894 million shares to close against previous turnover of 2.377 million shares, showing a downward move of 482,440 shares. While, out of the total 83 active scrips 19 moved up, 20 shed values and 44 remained equal.
The top three Major Gainers of the day were Engro Corporation Limited, Nishat (Chunian) Limited and Engro Fertilizers Limited by recording increase in their per share value by Rs 9.62, Rs 1.51 and Rs 1.44, respectively.
Mari Petroleum Company Limited, Pakistan Oil Fields Limited and Arif Habib Corporation Limited were among top three, which lost their per share value by Rs 8.00, Rs 7.09 and Rs 3.01 respectively.
Top three Volume Leaders of the day included Silk Bank Limited-LOR with 831,000 shares, Pace Pakistan Limtied with 150,000 shares and Silk Bank Limited (Saudi) with 133,000 shares.