Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited (PMEX), the country's only multi-commodity futures exchange, recorded the highest ever daily
trading volume of PKR 105.619 billion on August 07, 2019, since commencement of its operations in 2007.
Satyendra Pathak Doha Qatar's stock exchange gained almost QR13 billion in a week as Qatari stocks made impressive gains amid heavy
trading volume. Market capitalisation of Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) increased by 2.1 percent to QR590 billion against QR577.8 billion the previous trading week.
The aggregate
trading volume on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) has decreased by 22 percent since early 2018, compared to the same period of 2017, Kazakh media reported on Sept.
The telecom sector accounted for 32% of the total
trading volume, banks and financial services and industrials (22% each), realty (12%), transport (6%), consumer goods (3%) and insurance (2%) this week.
Trading volume increased 48.86 per cent to reach 90.73 million shares as against 60.95 million shares, while the number of transactions rose by 47.77 per cent to reach 64,943 as compared to 43,950 in December.
Active trading not only by foreign investors but by domestic institutional investors, individual investors and dealers on the view that the Japanese economy is improving led to the high
trading volume and value figures, brokers said.
The observed positive relation between equity security returns and
trading volume is well documented in the financial economics literature, and substantiates the contention that
trading volume drives security price revisions (Karpoff, 1987).
Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited (PMEX), the country's only multi-commodity futures exchange, recorded the highest
trading volume in the month of October 2018, since commencement of operations in 2007.
The market was skewed towards decliners this week which witnessed industrials and banking counters together accounted for about 57% of total
trading volume. The banks and financial services and industrials sectors accounted for 28% of the total volume, realty (15%), telecom (12%) transport (7%), consumer goods (6%) and insurance (2%) this week which saw robust expansion in Qatar's industrial production in September on higher output of hydrocarbons and manufacturing,.