The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued its upward momentum on Tuesday, driven by renewed investor confidence following a decline in inflation.
During intraday trading, the benchmark KSE-100 index gained 591.28 points, rising 0.39 percent to 150,562.42 points.
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), core inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed to 3 percent in August 2025, down from 4.1 percent in July, further boosting market sentiment.
According to PBS data, the CPI based inflation during the same month of last year (August 2024) was recorded at 9.6%.
On month-on-month basis, it decreased by 0.6% in August 2025 as compared to an increase of 2.9% in the previous month and an increase of 0.4% in August 2024.
A day earlier, the KSE-100 Index witnessed bullish trend, gaining 1,353.34 points, a positive change of 0.91 percent, closing at 149,971.12 points.
A total of 1,183,076,656 shares worth Rs48.849 billion were traded during the day.
As many as 480 companies transacted their shares in the stock market, 272 of them recorded gains and 175 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 33 companies remained unchanged.
Source: Dunya News
