On Tuesday at Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited, PMEX Commodity Index closed at 3,656. The traded value of Metals, Energy and COTS/FX was recorded at PKR 11.101billion and the number of lots traded 19,871.Major business was contributed byNSDQ100amounting to PKR 5.603 billion, followed by gold PKR 2.318billion ,currencies through COTS PKR 1.384billion, WTI crude oil PKR 1.037 billion, DJ PKR 335.941 million, silver PKR 101.089 million, natural gas PKR 88.889 million), SP500 (PKR 85.954 million, copper PKR 56.994 million, platinum PKR 48.582million, Brent crude oil PKR 35.131 million and Japan Equity Index PKR 5.690 million. In agriculture commodities 3lots of cotton valued at PKR 1.519 million were traded.

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