{"id":17662,"date":"2025-11-26T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=17662"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:11:07","slug":"psx-surges-again-as-index-crosses-162000-mark-dollar-weakens-slightly-in-interbank-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=17662","title":{"rendered":"PSX Surges Again as Index Crosses 162,000 Mark; Dollar Weakens Slightly in Interbank Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1706\" data-end=\"2011\"><strong>KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange continued its upward trend on the third business day of the week, with the 100-index once again rising above the 162,000-point level. Strong buying interest at the start of trading fueled a notable surge of more than 600 points, reflecting renewed investor confidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2013\" data-end=\"2285\">During early trading, the benchmark index climbed to 162,316 points, marking a sharp recovery from the previous session. A day earlier, the index had closed at 161,692 points after losing 291 points, but today\u2019s rally pushed the market firmly back into positive territory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2287\" data-end=\"2655\">Meanwhile, the currency market also witnessed a slight improvement in the value of the Pakistani rupee. According to the Exchange Companies Association, the dollar depreciated by 7 paisas in the interbank market, settling at Rs 280.50. Analysts believe this mild correction in the dollar rate is contributing to the overall positive sentiment across financial markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange continued its upward trend on the third business day of the week, with the 100-index once again rising above the 162,000-point level. Strong buying interest at the start of trading fueled a notable surge of more than 600 points, reflecting renewed investor confidence. During early trading, the benchmark index climbed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,46],"tags":[5528,5074,2469,6646,673,9543],"class_list":["post-17662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-business-news","tag-dollar-rate","tag-interbank-market","tag-investor-confidence","tag-pakistan-stock-exchange","tag-psx-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17664,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662\/revisions\/17664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}