Index inches up on heavy trading in K-Electric
KARACHI: Stocks crawled higher on Wednesday with the KSE-100 index closing up 43.05 points (0.11 per cent) to 40,591.88.
Regardless of low valuations of stocks, investors looked for triggers amidst a fluid political situation.
The index rose to the intraday high by 193 points, but succumbed to profit-taking later and closed about flat after meandering between red and green throughout the session.
The significant feature of the day was the burst of activity in K-Electric. The trading in the stock churned out a massive volume of 77 million shares, which accounted for 49pc of the day’s entire turnover of 157m shares.
The interest of investors in the utility was sparked after a TV channel attributed a comment to the privatisation minister and Sindh governor pertaining to an imminent takeover of K-Electric by Shanghai Electric.
The price of K-Electric witnessed a 52-week low at Rs5.17, but surged 10pc by the end of trading.