Pakistan, June 17 -- The benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued with bullish trend on Tuesday, gaining 3,353.15 points, a positive change of 1.89 percent, closing at 180,392.98 points against 177,039.83 points on the last trading day.

During the session, the ready market recorded a trading volume of 1.224 billion shares with a traded value of Rs 70.218 billion, compared to 988.081 million shares valuing Rs 63.477 billion in the previous session. The market capitalization increased to Rs 20.053 trillion from Rs 19.733 trillion a day earlier.

Out of 497 active companies in the ready market, 304 advanced, 165 declined and 28 remained unchanged.

Lotte Chemical topped the volume chart with 108.120 million sha...