On Wednesday at Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited, PMEX Commodity Index closed at 4,085. The traded value of Metals, Energy and COTS/FX was recorded at PKR 5.321 billion and the numbers of lots traded were 9,000. Major business was contributed by Gold amounting to PKR 1.493 billion, followed by Silver PKR 1.168 billion, Crude Oil PKR 830.418 million, Currencies through COTS PKR 517.124 million, Brent Crude Oil PKR 468.511 million, Copper PKR 318.229 million, Natural Gas PKR 236.459 million, Platinum PKR 228.620 million DJ PKR 23.227 million, SP500 PKR 22.844 million, NSDQ100 PKR 10.991 million and Palladium PKR 3.678 million. In agriculture 2 lots of Wheat amounting at PKR 7.241 million and 6 lots of Cotton amounting at PKR 2.829 million were traded.

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