Karachi Stock Exchange

The Karachi Stock Exchange (Urdu: کراچی بورس or PSX-KSE) was a stock exchange located in Karachi, Pakistan. Since 1947, it has been located at the Stock Exchange Building on I. I. Chundrigar Road. It has now been consolidated in the Pakistan Stock Exchange, along with the Lahore Stock Exchange and Islamabad Stock Exchange.[2] The KSE was Pakistan's largest and oldest stock exchange. According to Bloomberg, the Pakistani benchmark stock market index is the third-best performer in the world since 2009.[3] In June 2015, Khaleej Times reported that since 2009, Pakistani equities delivered 26% a year for US dollar investors, making Karachi the top-performing stock exchange in the world.[4][5]

Karachi Stock Exchange
کراچی بورس
TypeStock exchange
LocationKarachi, Pakistan
FoundedAugust 14, 1947 (1947-08-14)
ClosedJanuary 11, 2016 (2016-01-11)
OwnerPakistan Stock Exchange
Key peopleNadeem Naqvi, Managing Director
CurrencyPakistani rupee
CommoditiesShares & rights, corporate participation certificates, futures
No. of listings576 companies
Market capRs. 9.2 trillion (US$32 billion)[1]
VolumeRs. 1.3 trillion (US$4.5 billion)
Websitepsx.com.pk

History

The Karachi Stock Exchange was established on 18 September 1947, after the arrival of the educated and affluent Muhajirs, and was incorporated as Karachi Stock Exchange Limited on 10 March 1949. The KSE began with 5 companies as KSE 50 with a total market capitalization of Rs. 37 million (US$130,000). For over 60 years, the KSE facilitated capital formation, serving a wide spectrum of participants, including individual and institutional investors. With a growing number of listed companies and trading activities by the late 1980s, another index was proposed. On 1 November 1991, the KSE 100 Index was introduced. By 1995, the need for a futures index was realized and on 18 September 1995, the KSE All Shares Index was introduced. To address the needs of the investors community, two other indexes were introduced in the late 1990s - the KSE-30 Index and KMI 30 Index. Work on a fully automated trading system began in the late 1990s and in 2002, the Karachi Automated Trading System or KATS was launched, which had the ability to handle over 1 million trades per day. In the same year, the KSE was declared the "Best Performing Stock Market of the World".[6] In 2016, the Karachi Stock Exchange, Lahore Stock Exchange and Islamabad Stock Exchange were integrated under the Stock Exchanges (Corporatisation, Demutualization and Integration) Act, 2012 to form the Pakistan Stock Exchange.

Hours

The exchange has a trading session from 09:32am to 03:30pm PST and a post-market session from 03:31pm to 04:00pm PST from Monday to Thursday. On Friday, the trading session is split with the trading session beginning from 09:17am to 12:00pm and 02:32pm to 04:30pm. The exchange is closed on Saturdays and Sundays and holidays are declared by the exchange in advance.

Companies listed
SymbolCompany NameO.S. Shares
AGTLAl-Ghazi Tractors Limited57,964,201
ATLHAtlas Honda Limited103,406,613
DFMLDewan Farooque Motors Limited138,735,242

See also

References
  1. "About Pakistan Stock Exchange (www.psx.com.pk)". www.ksestocks.com.
  2. "Pakistan Stock Exchange formally launched". Dawn.
  3. "Pakistan central bank cuts benchmark rate to 42-year low". AFRWEEKEND. May 24, 2015. Archived from the original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  4. "KSE world's best performing frontier stock market: report". The Express Tribune. June 3, 2015. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. Retrieved Jun 8, 2015.
  5. "Pak equities to extend bull run on strong fundamentals". Khaleej Times. June 1, 2015. Archived from the original on June 1, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  6. Shoaib-ur-Rehman Siddiqi (Jan 30, 2015). "KSE one of best performing stock exchanges in world: PM". Business Recorder. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  • "Karachi Stock Exchange". Archived from the original on December 30, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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