{"id":7793,"date":"2026-03-09T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:29:16","slug":"kse-100-plunges-nearly-7-amid-heavy-trading-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2026\/03\/09\/kse-100-plunges-nearly-7-amid-heavy-trading-activity","title":{"rendered":"KSE-100 plunges nearly 7% amid heavy trading activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"158\" data-end=\"392\"><strong data-start=\"158\" data-end=\"181\">Karachi (Web Desk):<\/strong> The Pakistan Stock Exchange\u2019s <strong data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"229\">KSE-100 Index<\/strong> saw a sharp decline on Monday, dropping <strong data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"298\">11,015.95 points (6.99%)<\/strong> to close at <strong data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"332\">146,480.15 points<\/strong>, down from <strong data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"365\">157,496.10 points<\/strong> in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"597\">Market activity surged, with <strong data-start=\"423\" data-end=\"448\">621.65 million shares<\/strong> traded compared to <strong data-start=\"468\" data-end=\"493\">363.15 million shares<\/strong> the day before. The total turnover also jumped to <strong data-start=\"544\" data-end=\"564\">Rs37.116 billion<\/strong>, up from <strong data-start=\"574\" data-end=\"594\">Rs23.108 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"715\">Out of <strong data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"630\">480 listed companies<\/strong>, only <strong data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"656\">33 posted gains<\/strong>, while <strong data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"682\">386 saw losses<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"687\" data-end=\"712\">61 remained unchanged<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"834\">The futures market mirrored the downturn, with <strong data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"781\">316 companies<\/strong> active\u2014<strong data-start=\"789\" data-end=\"805\">315 declined<\/strong> and just <strong data-start=\"815\" data-end=\"831\">one advanced<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi (Web Desk): The Pakistan Stock Exchange\u2019s KSE-100 Index saw a sharp decline on Monday, dropping 11,015.95 points (6.99%) to close at 146,480.15 points, down from 157,496.10 points in the previous session. Market activity surged, with 621.65 million shares traded compared to 363.15 million shares the day before. The total turnover also jumped to Rs37.116 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[160,2294],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-business","tag-headline","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}