The Karachi Stock Exchange ( ur, or PSX-KSE) was a

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located in

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. Since 1947, it has been located at the Stock Exchange Building on

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. It has now been consolidated in the

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, along with the

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and

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. The KSE was Pakistan's largest and oldest stock exchange. According to Bloomberg, the Pakistani benchmark

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is the third-best performer in the world since 2009. In June 2015,

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reported that since 2009, Pakistani equities delivered 26% a year for US dollar investors, making Karachi the top-performing stock exchange in the world.

History

The Karachi Stock Exchange was established on 18 September 1947, after the arrival of the educated and affluent Muhajirs, and was incorporated as Karachi Stock Exchange Limited on 10 March 1949. The KSE began with 5 companies as ''KSE 50'' with a total market capitalization of . For over 60 years, the KSE facilitated capital formation, serving a wide spectrum of participants, including individual and institutional investors. With a growing number of listed companies and trading activities by the late 1980s, another index was proposed. On 1 November 1991, the

KSE 100 Index The KSE-100 Index is a stock index acting as a benchmark to compare prices on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) over a period. In determining representative companies to compute the index on, companies with the highest market capitalization are ...

was introduced. By 1995, the need for a futures index was realized and on 18 September 1995, the KSE All Shares Index was introduced. To address the needs of the investors community, two other indexes were introduced in the late 1990s - the

KSE-30 Index The Karachi Stock Exchange has launched the KSE-30 Index with base value of 10,000 points, formally implemented from Friday, September 1, 2006. The main feature of this index that makes it different from other indices are: * KSE-30 index is ba ...

and

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. Work on a fully automated trading system began in the late 1990s and in 2002, the ''Karachi Automated Trading System'' or KATS was launched, which had the ability to handle over 1 million trades per day. In the same year, the KSE was declared the ''"Best Performing Stock Market of the World"''. In 2016, the Karachi Stock Exchange, Lahore Stock Exchange and Islamabad Stock Exchange were integrated under the ''Stock Exchanges (Corporatisation, Demutualization and Integration) Act, 2012'' to form the Pakistan Stock Exchange.

Hours

The exchange has a trading session from 09:32am to 03:30pm PST and a post-market session from 03:31pm to 04:00pm PST from Monday to Thursday. On Friday, the trading session is split with the trading session beginning from 09:17am to 12:00pm and 02:32pm to 04:30pm. The exchange is closed on Saturdays and Sundays and holidays are declared by the exchange in advance.

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