Today's Market

The market closed down 14pts. The opening was encouraging as at one point the index gained 250pts. However during the course of the day it slowly lost ground. Today's turnover was 136mln shares and value traded was Rs7.7bln. Foreign flows, regional market movements and crude oil prices continue to dictate sentiment. Today's top items by value were MLCF, OGDC and PPL. POL, KTML NRL and Noon Pakistan were the top performers gaining over 4pc. TRG and JSCL closed at lower cap.