The Chai Tattle - 13th August 2025
A brief summary of the economic market at end of day looking at indicators and metrics not found elsewhere.
MesoQuill Research
Market Yesterday's jittery investor behavior permeated completely into the market today with index value declining and majority of the equities turning red with a sharp decline post 1pm even though Moody's announced an upgrade for Pakistan's credit rating citing improved external financing and expectation that tariff's will be favorable to Pakistan's export
58.85%
of the market volume was concentrated in Large Cap.
Overall trading on the floor tanked a little as liquidity dropped along with the proportion of shares traded to free float. With the market closed today a lot will depend on political events across the country tomorrow to dictate what happens on Friday.
YOUW again led the market volume segment with more than 50mn shares, however the consumer discretionary sector overall had an even day across the rest of the segment.
Energy as a sector continues to suffer with only SSGC having a positive price return of the 16 equities that traded in the sector.
of the shares traded compared to free float available shares
Earnings (Quarterly
Top News
MEBL and HMB announced quarterly earnings which were strong, but matched market expectations.
The company, subject to approval will be investing 2bn, Nexgen Autos and extending 500mn as working capital loan.
Crescent Star Insurance intention to purchase 6.7+mn shares of the company to take controlling interest in S.G. Power Limited.
Gatron Industries announced withdrawal from the arrangement with Nova Frontiers & Ghani & Tayub limited that would have removed their shareholding from the company