PSX to resume normal timings

Pakistan Stock Exchange to operate from 9:30am to around 3:45pm

KARACHI:

Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) will resume its normal operational timings, as post Covid-19 activities, from Monday (July 13)  with designated time schedule being 9:30 am to 3:30-3:45 pm during the first four days of the week and from 9:15 am to 4:30 pm every Friday.

PSX Managing Director Farrukh Khan, announcing reversion to normal timings at the Exchange, said this will encourage investors and market participants to remain actively engaged in capital market related activities. Citing this to be a positive development the PSX chief hoped it would help propagate normal market activities signalling encouraging development for post Covid-19 economy.

"This would give positive vibes for flattening of the curve in terms of pandemic," said Khan mentioning that the government, SECP and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) have taken numerous steps during the current year casting a positive impact on the capital markets of the country.