Pakistan, July 15 -- The benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued with a sharp bearish trend on Tuesday, losing 6,408.23 points, a negative change of 3.56 percent, to close at 173,518.82 points against 179,927.05 points on the previous trading day.

During the session, the ready market recorded a trading volume of 912.614 million shares with a traded value of Rs45.614 billion, compared to 845.279 million shares valuing Rs35.551 billion in the previous session. The market capitalization declined to Rs19.584 trillion from Rs20.290 trillion a day earlier.

Out of 498 active companies in the ready market, 40 advanced, 439 declined, and 19 remained unchanged.

Cnergyico PK led the volume chart with 84.545 million ...