RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: On Friday at Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited, PMEX Commodity Index closed at 3,403.

The traded value of Metals, Energy and COTS/FX was recorded at PKR 6.554 billion and the number of lots traded was 7,543.

Major business was contributed by gold amounting to PKR 2.505 billion, followed by WTI crude oil PKR 1.637 billion, currencies through COTS PKR 771.204 million, DJ PKR 572.843 million, platinum PKR 388.660 million, silver PKR 289.289 million, NSDQ100 PKR 211.218 million, SP500 PKR 97.496 million natural gas PKR 67.618 million, Brent PKR 7.522 million and copper PKR 5.694 million.

In agricultural commodities, 27 lots of cotton amounting to PKR 13.113 million were traded.