Pakistan, April 9 -- The benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a strong bullish trend on Wednesday, gaining 14,137.55 points, a positive change of 9.32 percent, closing at 165,811.01 points against 151,673.46 points on the last trading day, as improving regional situation and diplomatic progress boosted investor confidence.

During the session, the ready market recorded a trading volume of 1,245.185 million shares with a traded value of Rs 54.404 billion, compared to 357.269 million shares valuing Rs 20.436 billion in the previous session, according to PSX data. The market capitalization increased to Rs 18.322 trillion from Rs 16.855 trillion a day earlier.

Out of 491 active companies in the ready market,...