Pakistan, July 9 -- The benchmark KSE-100 Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a sharp bearish trend on Wednesday, losing 4,626.18 points, a negative change of 2.48 percent, closing at 181,629.37 points against 186,255.55 points on the last trading day.

During the session, the ready market recorded a trading volume of 1.551 billion shares with a traded value of Rs62.437 billion, compared to 984.847 million shares valuing Rs45.705 billion in the previous session. The market capitalization declined to Rs20.383 trillion from Rs20.857 trillion a day earlier.

Out of 496 active companies in the ready market, 87 advanced, 396 declined, and 13 remained unchanged.

WorldCall Telecom topped the volume chart with 220.440 million sh...