Pakistan, April 7 -- The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) opened the week on a highly negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index witnessing a dramatic fall of 2,818.86 points within the first 10 minutes of trading on Monday. By 9:40 AM, the index was hovering at 115,972.80 points, marking a 2.37% decline from the previous close of 118,791.66 points.

Friday Recap: In the last trading session on Friday, the market had already shown signs of weakness, with the KSE-100 slipping by 146.45 points (0.12%), closing at 118,791.66 from the previous day's 118,938.11.

A total of 553.67 million shares were traded during the session, up from 422.70 million shares the previous day. The total value of shares traded surged to Rs35.49 billion compared ...