{"id":21217,"date":"2025-04-09T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=21217"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:10:47","slug":"stock-market-crashes-over-2600-points-as-investor-panic-grips-psx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2025\/04\/09\/stock-market-crashes-over-2600-points-as-investor-panic-grips-psx\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock market crashes over 2,600 points as investor panic grips PSX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a severe downturn on Wednesday as the benchmark KSE-100 index plunged by more than 2,600 points within just one and a half hours of trading, sparking fresh concerns among investors and analysts alike.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trading session, which marked the third business day of the week, opened on a negative note, with the market immediately shedding 440 points. As the session progressed, the decline accelerated sharply, pulling the KSE-100 index down by a staggering 2,606 points to reach 112,910 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the session, the market tumbled below several psychological thresholds, falling past 115,000, 114,000, and eventually 113,000 points, leaving investors in a state of uncertainty and fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the first hour alone, the stock market had lost more than 2,000 points, with analysts attributing the steep decline to a combination of political uncertainty, concerns over economic reforms, and possible outflows from foreign investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By midday, the index had briefly recovered to 113,515 points, but remained significantly down by 2,017 points, indicating continued market volatility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a severe downturn on Wednesday as the benchmark KSE-100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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