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KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a significant drop on Tuesday, with share shedding over 600 points during intraday trading.
The benchmark KSE-100 index declined 622.46 points, or 0.76 percent, settling at 81,214.45 points from the previous close of 81,850.50 points at 12:22 pm. Finally, the index closed at 81,483.64 points,366.86 points or 0.45pc, from the previous close.
Chief Executive of EFG Hermes Pakistan, Raza Jafri, said the market was “negatively reacting to the recent result misses by state-owned oil exploration companies”.
Additionally, he said that independent power producers (IPPs) were also under pressure on news flow that the government is looking to revise their contracts.
Awais Ashraf, director of research at AKD Securities, said that the threat of “probable termination or renegotiation of contracts” with the IPPs fuelled the bearish momentum.
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