The Chai Tattle - 17th February 2026
A brief summary of the economic market at end of day looking at indicators and metrics not found elsewhere.
MesoQuill Research
A productive start to trading ensued for bulls at the start of the week with 58% equities in the green. The three major indices all gained more than a 100 basis points and trading was particularly frantic at the start with half of trading taking a little more than 2 hours and 24 minutes from the more than 6 hours of trading.
The return pattern shows fat tails for positive deltas along with more concentration in the centre.
Trading as expected was focused on the large sector and for a few sectors there were positive deltas.
Top News
Mitsubishi Corporation has shared details of its more than 11% share sale for the company and pending regulatory approvals will exit its position in the company.
Pakistan has begun talks with external stakeholders to explore tokenization of assets.
Earnings
REV & NI figures are in 000's.
Engro energy has sold 60mn shares in EPQL for 1.5bn but still holds a controlling stake.
