{"id":21816,"date":"2025-09-08T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=21816"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:40:06","slug":"psx-crosses-historic-155000-points-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2025\/09\/08\/psx-crosses-historic-155000-points-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"PSX crosses historic 155,000 points mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Pakistan Stock Market (PSX) has crossed the milestone of 155,000 points, for the first time in its history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to details surfaced on Monday, on the first day of the business week, the market opened with a gain of 780 points, reflecting a positive and upward trend. Following this, the index reached a record high of 155,000 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the session, investor interest was observed in blue-chip shares from the energy, oil and gas sectors. Attention was also drawn to blue-chip shares of cement companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Friday, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed at an all-time high on record-breaking trading activity, as the benchmark KSE-100 Index rose by 1,611 points to end at 154,277 points for the first time in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the session, the index briefly crossed the 154,511-point mark, reaching a new intraday record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 479 companies traded on the exchange. Among them, shares of 239 companies increased in value, while 210 saw declines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market recorded transactions involving shares worth Rs10.773 billion, with a total traded value of Rs59.90 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Stock Market (PSX) has crossed the milestone of 155,000 points, for the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21816","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PSX crosses historic 155,000 points mark - Rapid News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2025\/09\/08\/psx-crosses-historic-155000-points-mark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PSX crosses historic 155,000 points mark - 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