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PSX bang as the share prices smashed through 174,000-point mark – SUCH TV
The Pakistan Stock Market (PSX) started the new trading week on Monday with a bang as the share prices smashed through 174,000-point mark for the first time in history, reflecting growing investors’ confidence.
During intraday trading, the market saw a sharp rise, with the PSX’s benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining more than 1,900 points or 1.10 percent. The index reached a record high of 174,411 points, marking a major achievement for the stock market.
The sharp increase in stock market points reflected strong investor confidence and positive market sentiment, which continued to drive growth in the stock exchange.
Out of 563 active companies share prices of 171 were advanced, 158 declined, while 171 remained unchanged.
Buying interest was observed in key sectors, including automobile assemblers, cement, commercial banks, fertilizers, oil and gas exploration companies, OMCs, power generation, and refineries.
Index-heavy stocks, including ARL, HUBCO, MARI, OGDC, PPL, POL, HBL, MEBL, and MCB, traded in the green.
PSX is expected to remain the best-performing asset class in 2026, supported by improving macroeconomic stability, easing inflationary pressures, and sustained domestic liquidity, according to Arif Habib Limited’s report titled “Pakistan Investment Strategy 2026: The Equity Edge Continues.”
Earlier on December 26, 2025, the benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed bullish, gaining 1,570.51 points, a positive change of 0.92 percent, to settle at 172,400.73 points.
During the session, the ready market witnessed a trading volume of 797.999 million shares with a traded value of Rs 38.062 billion, against 811.558 million shares valuing Rs 29.795 billion in the previous session.
Market capitalization increased to Rs 19.465 trillion from Rs 19.361 trillion a day earlier.
WorldCall Telecom topped the volume chart with 79.320 million shares, followed by Bank of Punjab with 78.049 million shares and K-Electric Limited with 33.061 million shares.
The top gainers included Ismail Industries Limited, which rose by Rs 62.76 to close at Rs 1,984.69, and Murree Brewery Company Limited, increasing by Rs 35.02 to settle at Rs 1,080.17.
On the losing side, PIA Holding Company Limited-B declined by Rs1,483.45 to close at Rs17,666.14, while Rafhan Maize Products Company Limited fell by Rs653.22 to close at Rs 10,259.54.
In the futures market, turnover stood at 972.427 million shares with a traded value of Rs46.944 billion, compared to 720.406 million shares worth Rs37.983 billion in the previous session.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday decided against activating the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB), indicating that current financial and credit conditions do not warrant an additional capital requirement for banks, PTI reported.The central bank said the decision followed a review and empirical assessment of indicators used under the CCyB framework.“Based on review and empirical analysis of CCyB indicators, it has been decided that it is not necessary to activate CCyB at this point in time,” RBI said in a statement.Under the RBI (Commercial Banks – Prudential Norms on Capital Adequacy) Directions, 2025, the CCyB framework is activated when financial conditions indicate rising systemic risks linked to excessive credit growth.The framework primarily relies on the credit-to-GDP gap as a key indicator, along with supplementary metrics.According to the RBI, the CCyB mechanism is intended to serve two broad objectives.Firstly, it requires a bank to build up a buffer of capital in good times, which may be used to maintain the flow of credit to the real sector in difficult times.Secondly, it achieves the broader macro-prudential goal of restricting the banking sector from indiscriminate lending in the periods of excess credit growth that have often been associated with the building up of system-wide risk.The framework was introduced globally after the 2008 financial crisis as part of measures proposed by the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) under the Basel framework to strengthen financial system resilience.
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“Today’s policymaking is constrained by a more volatile external environment with more frequent and overlapping shocks, a rising public interest bill, in part reflecting market concerns with countries’ elevated debt, and the long-standing challenge of weak productivity growth,” he said.
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