{"id":10347,"date":"2025-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/2025\/12\/23-dec-2025-psx-closes-slightly-lower-amid-mixed-sectoral-performance-on-december-23-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:00:00","slug":"23-dec-2025-psx-closes-slightly-lower-amid-mixed-sectoral-performance-on-december-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/?p=10347","title":{"rendered":"PSX Closes Slightly Lower Amid Mixed Sectoral Performance on December 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a marginal dip on Tuesday, as the KSE-100 Index fell by 130.44 points to close at 171,073.73. Trading activity remained moderate with select sectors posting gains while others saw profit-taking.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Market Overview<\/h2>\n<p>On December 23, 2025, the Pakistan Stock Exchange closed in the red with the benchmark KSE-100 index falling by 130.44 points or 0.08%, settling at 171,073.73. The index moved within a range of 898.99 points, hitting an intraday high of 171,867.31 and a low of 170,968.31.<\/p>\n<h2>Trading Highlights<\/h2>\n<p>Total trades stood at <strong>347,006<\/strong> with a trading volume of <strong>650.14 million shares<\/strong> and a total traded value of <strong>PKR 28.26 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Among 366 companies traded, <strong>152 advanced<\/strong>, <strong>187 declined<\/strong>, and <strong>27 remained unchanged<\/strong>, indicating a broadly mixed sentiment.<\/p>\n<h2>Top Sectoral Performers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Banking:<\/strong> The BKTI index rose by 0.57%, reflecting positive investor sentiment in the banking sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technology:<\/strong> The Technology &#038; Communication sector continued to show strength, bolstered by gains in select mid-tier tech stocks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Indices<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>KSE-All Share Index:<\/strong> Dropped by 206.29 points (-0.20%) to close at 103,120.17.<\/li>\n<li><strong>KSE-30 Index:<\/strong> Declined by 86.09 points (-0.16%) to close at 52,237.49.<\/li>\n<li><strong>KMI-30 Index:<\/strong> Fell by 1,027.98 points (-0.42%) to settle at 243,705.74.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Market Sentiment<\/h2>\n<p>Despite a strong start to the day, profit-taking in key sectors like Oil &#038; Gas and Fertilizers resulted in the market closing slightly lower. However, the overall trend remains optimistic as the year-end approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a marginal dip on Tuesday, as the KSE-100 Index fell by 130.44 points to close at 171,073.73. Trading activity remained moderate with select sectors posting gains while others saw profit-taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":10348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,1404],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-statistics","category-shares","category-stock-market","tag-psx","tag-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}