Shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange\u2019s benchmark index lost more than 400 points to settle at 75,517.48 levels on Monday. According to the PSX website, the KSE-100 index shed 465.55 points to reach 75,517.48 levels, depreciating by 0.61% per cent against the previous closing of 75,983.03. Shares at the PSX benchmark index scaled a record high and breached the key 76,000 level on May 24 in the intraday trade as the International Monetary Fund and Pakistan make \u201csignificant progress\u201d towards reaching a staff-level agreement for an extended fund facility. But the KSE-100 index had 75,983.03. Mohammed Sohail, the Topline Securities CEO, has said that although the market appears to be at an all-time high of 76,000 compared to the previous Index peak of 53,000 in 2017, it\u2019s still lower adjusted for dividends. \u201cThe KSE 100, a total return index including dividends but the KSE 30, a price-only index, remains 15% below its 2017 peak,\u201d he said in a long post on X on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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