The Chai Tattle - 15th August 2025
A brief summary of the economic market at end of day looking at indicators and metrics not found elsewhere.
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The market experienced a marked reversal during the day with the three major indices starting positively but closing the day slightly in the negative even though a minor majority of stocks ended up in the green at close, however overall trading diminished by some margin - dropping more than 37% for the overall market and representing only 0.84% of the free float.
58.76%
of the market volume was concentrated in Large Cap.
The strength of the negative deltas can be seen with 58 equities losing between 1-2% of the their value and 69% of the equities closing a little lower than yesterday. This did effect the liquidity profile as for the first time in a few weeks the numbers dropped lower than 70% so the announcement of Moody's credit upgrade did not live that long..
MDTL incorporated more than 12% price increase and the materials sector had a lot of trading driven by ASL, GCIL, MUGHAL, and FCCL.
Energy as a sector continues to be in a price decline.
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 announced a stock split of 1 to 5 from 10Rs to 2Rs. per share.
The refinery will be shut for a period of 15 days starting from 17th August.
The bank announced it is exercising its call option in relation to its 6bn TFC debt issue.