Pakistan, May 5 -- The benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed bullish trend on Monday, gaining 954.77 points, a positive change of 0.59 percent, closing at 163,948.94 points against 162,994.17 points on the last trading day, according to PSX data.

During the session, the ready market recorded a trading volume of 696.704 million shares with a traded value of Rs 34.913 billion, compared to 837.371 million shares valuing Rs 36.345 billion in the previous session. The market capitalization increased to Rs 18.124 trillion from Rs 18.022 trillion a day earlier.

Out of 487 active companies in the ready market, 295 advanced, 151 declined, and 41 remained unchanged.

Hascol Petrol topped the volume chart with 51.5...