{"id":10458,"date":"2026-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/2026\/02\/12-feb-2026-psx-sheds-over-2500-points-amid-broad-market-decline\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:00:00","slug":"12-feb-2026-psx-sheds-over-2500-points-amid-broad-market-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/?p=10458","title":{"rendered":"PSX Sheds Over 2,500 Points Amid Broad Market Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closes lower on February 12, 2026, with the KSE-100 Index dropping 2,537.16 points (-1.39%) amid a market-wide downturn.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Market Recap \u2013 February 12, 2026<\/h2>\n<p>On Wednesday, February 12, 2026, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a sharp decline across indices. The benchmark <strong>KSE-100 Index<\/strong> closed at <strong>180,512.64<\/strong>, down by <strong>2,537.16 points<\/strong> or <strong>1.39%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The day\u2019s trading saw the index fluctuating between a high of <strong>182,757.08<\/strong> and a low of <strong>178,725.24<\/strong>. Total market volume reached <strong>873.99 million shares<\/strong> across <strong>441,474 trades<\/strong>, with the total value recorded at approximately <strong>PKR 41.77 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Broad-scale losses were observed across the board. Key sector indices also slid: the <strong>KSE All Share Index<\/strong> dropped <strong>1,441.29 points<\/strong> to close at <strong>108,400.67<\/strong> while the <strong>KSE 30 Index<\/strong> lost <strong>773.09 points<\/strong> to end at <strong>55,207.56<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Declines were prominent across multiple sectors including Oil &#038; Gas (OGTI down 2.28%), Banking (BKTI down 1.16%), and Technology. Among the major indices, <strong>KMI-30<\/strong> bore significant losses with a drop of <strong>4,292.28 points<\/strong> (-1.65%).<\/p>\n<p>Out of companies that traded, the majority witnessed losses, with very few advancing or remaining unchanged. This reflects a bearish sentiment prevailing due to various macroeconomic and market-specific factors.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are advised to monitor economic and corporate developments for potential recovery signals in the coming sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closes lower on February 12, 2026, with the KSE-100 Index dropping 2,537.16 points (-1.39%) amid a market-wide downturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":10459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,1404],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-10458","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\/10458","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=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialliteracy.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}