Pakistan, April 14 -- The benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a bearish trend on Monday, losing 6,600.05 points, a negative change of 3.95 percent, closing at 160,591.33 points against 167,191.38 points on the last trading day, according to PSX data.

The bearish trend came a day after Islamabad-brokered peace talks between US and Iran collapsed

During the session, the ready market recorded a trading volume of 743.227 million shares with a traded value of Rs 34.285 billion, compared to 875.538 million shares valuing Rs 46.648 billion in the previous session. The market capitalization decreased to Rs 17.802 trillion from Rs 18.473 trillion a day earlier.

Out of 483 active companies in the ready market, ...