Pakistan, April 24 -- The benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange continued with bearish trend on Thursday, losing 2,405.93 points, a negative change of 1.40 percent, closing at 169,173.38 points against 171,579.31 points on the last trading day, according to PSX data.

During the session, the ready market recorded a trading volume of 1,321.506 million shares with a traded value of Rs 30.844 billion, compared to 1,054.061 million shares valuing Rs 37.293 billion in the previous session.

The market capitalization decreased to Rs 18.713 trillion from Rs 18.971 trillion a day earlier. Out of 483 active companies in the ready market, 164 advanced, 286 declined, and 33 remained unchanged. F. Nat. Equities topped the volume char...