{"id":109322,"date":"2026-04-24T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=109322"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:22:31","slug":"pakistan-stock-exchange-sees-sharp-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistan-stock-exchange-sees-sharp-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Stock Exchange sees sharp decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistan-stock-exchange-sees-huge-rally\/\"> Pakistan Stock Exchange<\/a> witnessed a sharp decline at the start of the fifth and last day of the trading week, which worried investors.<\/p>\n<p>During early trading, the Hundred Index recorded a major decline of more than 2,500 points, after which the index fell to 166,380 points.<\/p>\n<p>It should be remembered that at the end of the previous trading day, the market had also closed in the negative zone, where the Hundred Index closed at 169,173 points with a decline of 2,405 points.<\/p>\n<p>According to economists, the continuous downward trend reflects the decline in investor confidence and economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a mixed trend is being seen in Asian stock markets, with Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index recording a 0.64 percent increase, while Malaysia&#8217;s Fitsi Bursa index also saw a 0.66 percent increase. In contrast, Indonesia&#8217;s Jakarta Composite Index fell significantly by 2.16%.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, China&#8217;s Shanghai Composite Index fell by 0.58%, while Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng Index also recorded a decline of 0.20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange witnessed a sharp decline at the start of the fifth and last day of the trading week, which worried investors. During early trading, the Hundred Index recorded a major decline of more than 2,500 points, after which the index fell to 166,380 points. It should be remembered that at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":41887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3460],"class_list":["post-109322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-pakistan-stock-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109323,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109322\/revisions\/109323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}