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PSX Suffers Brutal 5,400-Level Crash As Key Index Falls Beneath 168,000

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Published on March 17, 2026
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PSX Suffers Brutal 5,400-Level Crash As Key Index Falls Beneath 168,000

Pakistan equities witnessed one other massive crash on Monday, with the market rolling again final week’s good points into detrimental territory.
The KSE-100 Index fell by 5,478 factors (-3.16 p.c), closing the session at 167,691 factors.
Throughout the earlier hours of commerce, the principle bourse briefly fell by 6,283 factors (-3.63 p.c) to as little as 166,886.

A complete of 204.7 million shares have been traded in the course of the day. The worth of shares stood at Rs. 20.6 billion.
Index-heavy constituents—together with Fauji Fertilizer Firm (FFC), Fortunate Cement (LUCK), Engro Holdings (ENGROH), Nationwide Financial institution of Pakistan (NBP), and Habib Financial institution Restricted (HBL)—emerged because the principal laggards, collectively dragging the benchmark down by 1,797 factors in the course of the session.
High Volumes
As many as 567 firms transacted their shares within the inventory market, 42 of them recorded good points and 389 sustained losses, whereas the share value of 136 firms remained unchanged.

Ok-Electrical (KEL) led the volumes chart, recording over 35.9 million shares traded.

SCRIP
PRICE
HIGH
LOW
CHANGE
VOLUME

KEL
7.66
8.14
7.57
-0.37
36,062,769

WTL
1.32
1.43
1.29
-0.06
33,673,161

BOP
30.19
33.2
29.74
-2.85
26,673,106

FNEL
1.34
1.4
1.2
0.08
24,647,531

TSBLR1
0.43
0.55
0.41
-0.09
18,550,384

PTC
57.1
61.2
55.7
-2.12
17,077,810

PIBTL
17.49
18.95
17.35
-1.19
13,317,615

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