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PSX: stocks surge in early trading

Pakistan Published 21 October 2026, 09:51 · archived 21 Oct 2026

Buying interest returned at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining nearly 400 points during the opening minutes of trading on Wednesday. At 9:30am, the benchmark index was hovering at 165,549.65, up 398.01 points or 0.24%. Buying was observed in key sectors, including automobile assemblers, cement, commercial banks, oil and gas exploration companies, OMCs and power generation. Index-heavy stocks, including ARL, HUBCO, MARI, OGDC, PPL, POL, SSGC, SNGPL, HBL, MEBL, NBP and UBL, traded in the green. On Tuesday, PSX extended its decline as persistent selling pr...

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