Trading at PSX halted for second consecutive day

Trading at Pakistan Stock Exchange halted for a second consecutive day on Thursday when share prices fell 1,752 points.

The market came to a halt around 9:35am when prices rapidly fell 5.76 per cent.

Trading halted yesterday less than an hour into the morning session after the benchmark KSE-100 index fell 1,682 points as investors reacted with disappointment to the lower-than-expected cut in the policy rate announced by the central bank on Tuesday.

Earlier this week on Monday, PSX had suffered its worst single-day decline in history.