KARACHI (Dunya News) – The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 Index witnessed bullish trend on Monday, gaining 1,421.08 points, a positive change of 1.08 percent, closing at 133,370.15 points against 131,949.07 points last trading day.
A total of 919,907,440 shares were traded during the day as compared to 733,079,943 shares the previous trading day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs 45.311 billion against Rs 34.924 billion on the last trading day.
As many as 479 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 299 of them recorded gains and 155 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 25 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Image Pakistan with 48,084,641 shares at Rs 36.32 per share, Bank of Punjab with 42,510,708 shares at Rs 11.87 per share and WorldCall Telecom with 36,920,603 shares at Rs 1.55 per share.
Hoechst Pakistan Limited witnessed a maximum increase of Rs158.11 per share closing at Rs 3,526.13 whereas runner-up was Lucky Core Industries Limited with Rs158.05 rise in its share price to close at Rs1,738.51.
PIA Holding Company LimitedB witnessed a maximum decrease of Rs 1,882.55 per share price, closing at Rs 21,787.59, whereas the runner-up was Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited with Rs 247.84 decline in its per share price to Rs 23,399.15.
Foreign Exchange Reserves
State Bank of Pakistan has reported that the total liquid foreign reserves of Pakistan surged to $18,091.1 million while the reserves held by the central bank increased to $ 12,727.8 million as of June 27, 2025.
Moreover, SBP’s foreign exchange reserves closed at $14.51 billion by the end of the fiscal year 2024-25, the central bank earlier announced, highlighting a noticeable improvement in the country’s current account balance and realization of planned inflows during the FY 2024-25.
According to the provisional data for FY25, “SBP’s FX reserves has recorded an increase of US$ 5.12 billion to reach US$ 14.51 billion as on 30 June 2025 compared to US$ 9.39 billion as on 30 June 2024,” the central bank has announced on the first working day of the new fiscal year.
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On the weekly basis, SBP reserves increased by $3,663 million to $12,727.8 million due to receipt of GOP multilateral and commercial loans during the week ended on 27 June 2025, the central bank reported in its statement on liquid foreign reserves position, adding that the net foreign reserves held by the commercial banks recorded as $5,363.3 million.
Total liquid foreign reserves held by the country, in the previous week ended on June 20, 2025, were $14,397.4 million.