The stock market continued to negotiate records on Tuesday, with gains fired by solid financial results, institutional purchases and optimism concerning the finalization of American investment commitments within the framework of the recently signed trade agreement.
“The actions have closed to a new record of all time in the midst of financial results and solid speculation on the positive results of finer details on American investments under the United States Trade Agreement,” said Ahsan Mehanti, CEO and CEO of ARIF Habib Commodities.
“Shipments of record funds of $ 3.2 billion in July 25, the stability of the rupee and the expectations of the overvoltage of exports on the American pricing conflict played the role of catalyst in the closing record increased at PSX,” he added.
The KSE-100 KSE-100 KSE-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) reached an intraday summit of 147,976.98 points, winning 1,047.14 points, or 0.71%, compared to the previous fence of 146,929.84. The bottom of the session was recorded at 147,309.18 points, up 379.34 points, or 0.26%.
“Investments in common funds advance the market in light of good results, improving American relations and macroeconomic re -evaluations. A certain positivity is also expected due to the resolution of the circular debt, “added Aah Soomro, an independent investment and economic analyst.
Pakistan and the United States are in the last stages of discussions to determine the finest details of their trade agreement, which includes investment flows, Bloomberg reported quoting the Minister of Finance of the Bilal Azhar Kayani State.
The government is looking for improved pricing concessions on certain exports, based on the 19% tariff agreement of last month which was links between Islamabad and Washington heated.
On the interior policy front, the government has advanced reforms in the power sector, reducing the circular debt by 780 billion rupees to 1.6 billion of rupees.
The National Assembly was informed that the total circular debt amounted to 2.47 Billions of rupees in May 2025, with 1,275 billion rupees being organized by a six -year loan to 3 months of Kibor minus 0.9%, served by the overload of existing debt (DSS) on electricity bills.
The measures to prevent its re -emergence include tariff renegotiations with PIPs, the privatization of four distribution companies, improvements in efficiency to reducing technical losses and capacity to lower cost.
The feeling of businesses has reached its most optimistic level in almost four years, according to the sounding of the confidence of companies in T2 2025 in Gallup Pakistan. The “Directorate of the country’s score” improved at -2% of deeply negative levels at the end of 2024, with 46% of respondents evaluating the economic management of the Muslim government of Pakistan -Nawaz as that of its predecessor, against 24% a year ago.
Monday, the KSE-100 reference index increased by 1,547.05 points, or 1.06%, to 146,929.84 points, against 145,382.8 points recorded in the last session. The highest index of the day remained at 147,005.18 points, while the lowest level was recorded at 145,258.50 points.
