{"id":1081,"date":"2026-05-14T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:50:08","slug":"buying-returns-to-bourse-kse-100-up-1000-points-in-early-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Buying returns to bourse, KSE-100 up 1,000 points in early trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buying interest returned at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining nearly 1,000 points during the opening minutes of trading on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At 9:35am, the benchmark index was hovering at 168,449.14, an increase of 998.01 points or 0.60%.<\/p>\n

Buying was observed in key sectors, including automobile assemblers, cement, commercial banks, oil and gas exploration companies, OMCs, power generation and refinery. Index-heavy stocks, including ARL, HUBCO, MARI, OGDC, PPL, HBL, MCB, MEBL and UBL, traded in the green.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday<\/a>, PSX remained bearish as investors adopted a cautious stance amid the absence of tangible progress in ongoing diplomatic negotiations and lingering uncertainty over developments between the United States and Iran, while elevated oil prices further dampened market sentiment and triggered selling in key index-heavy stocks.<\/p>\n

The benchmark KSE-100 Index closed at 167,451.14 points, registering a decline of 1,465.09 points or 0.87%.<\/p>\n

Globally, stocks rose on Thursday, powered by AI fervour that pushed \u200bSouth Korea\u2019s SK Hynix to the brink of joining the trillion-dollar club, while the spotlight was firmly on a high-stakes summit between \u200cUS President Donald Trump and China\u2019s Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

Trump received a grand welcome at Beijing\u2019s Great Hall of the People on Thursday as he opened talks with President Xi, expected to focus on their fragile trade truce and flashpoints such as the Iran war and arms sales to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s blue-chip stocks eased 1% after hitting \u2060their highest level since late 2021 at the start of the session, while the yuan rose to a three-year high against the dollar as traders \u200bwatched the headlines from the Trump-Xi meeting.<\/p>\n

MSCI\u2019s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.3%, hovering near the record-high hit last week.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Nikkei \u200bwas perched at a new all-time peak with data showing AI-linked demand partly helped lift earnings for Japanese firms. Seoul\u2019s KOSPI gave up its early gains to trade flat on the day.<\/p>\n

Analysts, though, caution \u200bthat the elevated oil prices and the impasse in negotiations to end the war in the Middle East could bring inflationary worries back into view.<\/p>\n

This is an intraday update<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buying interest returned at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining nearly 1,000 points during the opening minutes of trading on Thursday. At 9:35am, the benchmark index was hovering at 168,449.14, an increase of 998.01 points or 0.60%. Buying was observed in key sectors, including automobile assemblers, cement, commercial banks, oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}