About Stock Exchange

Stock Market is a private or public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives of company stock at an agreed price; both of these are securities listed on a stock exchange.

The 'stock market' denotes to the market that enables the trading of company stocks (collective shares), other securities, and derivatives.

The stocks are listed and traded on stock exchanges which are entities either a corporation or mutual organization specialized in the business of bringing buyers and sellers of stocks and securities together.

The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) (Pakistan)

The Karachi Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Founded in 1947, it is Pakistan's largest & oldest stock exchange.

Karachi Stock Exchange is the biggest and most liquid exchange and has been declared as the “Best Performing Stock Market of the World for the year 2002”. As on December 31, 2007, 654 companies were listed with the market capitalization of Rs. 4,329,909.79 billion (US $ 70.177) having listed capital of Rs. 671.269 billion (US $ 10.880 billion). The KSE 100 Index closed at 14075.83 on December 31, 2007.

KSE has been well into the 6th year of being one of the Best Performing Markets of the world as declared by the international magazine “Business Week”. Similarly the US newspaper, USA Today, termed Karachi Stock Exchange as one of the best performing bourses in the world.

Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) Pakistan

The Lahore Stock Exchange is the 2nd largest stock exchange of Pakistan. We are dynamic and emerging market with large number of listed companies and state of the art technology. We provide a transparent, fair and geographical independent trading environment to attract retail investors.

Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISB) Pakistan

Islamabad Stock Exchange is one of the three stock exchanges of Pakistan. It was incorporated on October 25, 1989 and it became fully operational on August 10, 1992. Islamabad Stock Exchange