| ABOUT KSE | |
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Karachi Stock Exchange is the biggest and most liquid exchange and has been declared as the “Best Performing Stock Market of the World for the year 2002”. As on July 31, 2008, 653 companies were listed with the market capitalization of Rs. 3,301.908 billion (US $ 46.258 billion) having listed capital of Rs. 713.077 billion (US $ 9.990 billion). The KSE 100 Index closed at 10583.58 on July 31, 2008. KSE has been well into the 4th year of being one of the Best Performing Markets of the world as declared by the international magazine “Business Week”. Similarly the US newspaper, USA Today, termed Karachi Stock Exchange as one of the best performing bourses in the world.
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KSE 100 INDEX
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GROWTH & PROGRESS | *
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MARKET INDICES | |
KSE
began with a 50 shares index. As the market grew a representative
index was needed. On November 1, 1991 the KSE-100 was introduced
and remains to this date the most generally accepted measure
of the Exchange. The KSE-100 is a capital weighted index
and consists of 100 companies representing about 86 percent
of market capitalization of the Exchange.
In 1995 the need was felt for an all share index to reconfirm the KSE-100 and also to provide the basis of index trading in future. On August 29, 1995 the KSE all share index was constructed and introduced on September 18, 1995. KSE has also introduced KSE-30 Index which is calculated using "Free Float Market Capitalization Methodology". The primary objective of the KSE 30 Index is to have a bench mark by which the stock price performance can be compared to over a period of time. In particular, the KSE-30 Index is designed to provide investors with a sense of how large company's scrip's of the Pakistan's equity market are performing. |