Stock Market

Karachi share market opened on a positive note and the benchmark KSE-100 index hit 7,269.54 points intra-day high level on Wednesday. However, the news about Lahore bomb blast affected the investors' sentiment negatively and the index went into the negative zone at 7,164.53 points intra-day low level. The index finally managed to close in the positive at 7,188.84 points with a net gain of 11.95 points on the back of late buying in some fundamentally strong stocks.