{"id":1458,"date":"2026-02-06T05:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:48:07","slug":"psx-declines-sharply-as-kse-100-loses-over-2000-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"PSX declines sharply as KSE-100 loses over 2,000 points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KARACHI \u2013 The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) saw sharp decline on last day of the trading week amid profit-taking rally by investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a brief period of gains at the market&#8217;s opening, the KSE-100 experienced a sharp decline. It lost over 2,000 points, falling to 184,548, losing three key psychological levels during the trading session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investors are closely watching the market amid the ongoing volatility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In previous session, the benchmark KSE-100 Index witnessed a bullish trend, gaining 931.34 points, a positive change of 0.50 percent, to close at 187,832.08 points compared to 186,900.74 points on the previous trading day, according to PSX data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the session, the ready market recorded a trading volume of 1,195.264 million shares with a traded value of Rs 44.102 billion, against 848.559 million shares valuing Rs 50.026 billion in the previous session. Market capitalization increased to Rs 21.278 trillion from Rs 21.149 trillion a day earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI \u2013 The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) saw sharp decline on last day of the trading week amid profit-taking rally by investors. After a brief period of gains at the market&#8217;s opening, the KSE-100 experienced a sharp decline. It lost over 2,000 points, falling to 184,548, losing three key psychological levels during the trading session. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}