{"id":22037,"date":"2026-05-21T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22037"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:23:00","slug":"pakistan-stock-exchange-surges-as-kse-100-index-gains-over-2900-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22037","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Stock Exchange Surges as KSE-100 Index Gains Over 2,900 Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Pakistan Stock Exchange continued its strong bullish momentum on the fourth trading day of the business week, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index recording a significant increase due to strong investor interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the start of trading, the KSE-100 Index rose by 1.79 percent, gaining nearly 2,950 points and reaching the level of 167,782 points.<\/p>\n<p>Economic experts say the positive market trend is mainly driven by investor confidence, expectations of economic stability, and prospects of improvement in the financial sector.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the US dollar witnessed a slight decline in the interbank market, where it fell by one paisa to trade at Rs 278.55.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts believe that the bullish stock market trend and stability in the rupee\u2019s value reflect growing investor confidence in the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Stock Exchange continued its strong bullish momentum on the fourth trading day of the business week, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index recording a significant increase due to strong investor interest. At the start of trading, the KSE-100 Index rose by 1.79 percent, gaining nearly 2,950 points and reaching the level of 167,782 points. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7559,"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":[5141,2469,4297,673,1445,1230],"class_list":["post-22037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-economic-stability","tag-interbank-market","tag-kse-100-index","tag-pakistan-stock-exchange","tag-stock-market","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22037","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=22037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22038,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22037\/revisions\/22038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}