Today's Market

The market gave another soft performance today, ending down 41pts to close at 39458. The index stayed well in negative territory till the end of the session. At one point the index was down till 39254. Participants seemed to sit on the sidelines after last weeks sizeable outflow. Turnover was lower at 182mln shares and value traded over half its weekly average at Rs.7.2bln. Just to highlight investor nervousness on account of outflows, top 5 volume leaders accounted for 40pc of today's volume

KEL, AMTEX, DFSM, TRG and DFML were leaders on the volume charts.

AKZO and BOP were top performers today up 4pc. EFUL, PAKT and SCL closed down 3-5pc.