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Karachi: Pakistan's benchmark stock index closed little changed as emergency trading limits continued for the fourth day to halt a slide in shares that dragged the gauge down by almost a third this year.
The Karachi Stock Exchange 100 index rose 19.36 points, or 0.2 per cent, to close at 9,229.51. MCB Bank and National Refinery advanced.
The exchange on August 28 set the previous day's stock prices as a bottom limit for trading. Securities can trade within the five per cent daily limits "but not below the floor-price level" set on August 27.
Seventy-two of the KSE 100's constituents were unchanged on Tuesday.
"The situation will remain the same till the rules get back to normal," said Atif Malek, vice-president of sales at JS Global Capital. "It seems the regulator will review it after the presidential elections."
Stocks have plunged on concern the political instability will blunt efforts to tackle a rising insurgency by extremists, grapple with inflation at its highest in 30 years and revive the faltering economy.
MCB Bank rose 0.5 per cent to Rs243.95. National Refinery rose 1.4 per cent to Rs213.
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