The market's overall situation also did not correspond to an upward trend as it remained at 915,900 shares to close against previous turnover of 1.446 million shares, showing a downward slide of 530,500 shares.
While, out of the total 78 active scrips, only 9 moved up, 9 shed values and 60 remained equal.
The Major Gainers of the day were Muslim Commercial Bank Limited, Systems Limited and Maple Leaf Cement Factory by recording increase in their per share value by Rs. 3.89, Rs. 2.85 and Rs. 0.80.
United Bank Limited, Pak Elektron Limited and Byco Petroleum Pakistan lost their per share value by Re. 0.88, Re. 0.70 and Re. 0.65 respectively.
Top three Volume Leaders of the day included Pace Pakistan Limited with 500,000 shares, The Bank of Punjab Limited with 235,000 shares and Byco Petroleum Pakistan with 68,000 shares.