{"id":70594,"date":"2026-09-02T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/70594"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:49:26","slug":"psx-market-closes-lower-as-kse-100-index-drops-1690-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/70594","title":{"rendered":"PSX market closes lower as KSE-100 index drops 1,690 points"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The trading session in the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed lower on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, as the KSE-100 index dropped 1,690.40 points, or 0.96 percent, to close at\u00a0174,776.60, compared with 176,466.99 in the previous session.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the data released by PSX, during the trading session, the index traded between a high of 175,841.83 and a low of 174,562.88, before closing near the lower end of the day\u2019s range.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

During the trading session, 501 companies traded; out of these, 113 companies\u2019 shares closed higher, compared with 356 that ended lower and 32 unchanged.<\/p>\n

The market recorded\u00a0610.18 million shares\u00a0in turnover, down from 784.47 million in the previous session.<\/p>\n

Traded value also fell to about\u00a0Rs. 31.86 billion, compared with Rs.37.41 billion previously.<\/p>\n

Market capitalization stood at approximately\u00a0Rs. 19.58 trillion, down from Rs.19.78 trillion in the previous session.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The trading session in the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed lower on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, as the KSE-100 index dropped 1,690.40 points, or 0.96 percent, to close at\u00a0174,776.60, compared with 176,466.99 in the previous session. According to the data released by PSX, during the trading session, the index traded between a high of 175,841.83 and a low of 174,562.88,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/PSX-low-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":4266,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":4266,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70596,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70594\/revisions\/70596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}