Times of Islamabad

Pakistan Stock Exchange goes crashing, hits 38 months low

Pakistan Stock Exchange goes crashing, hits 38 months low

*KARACHI: **Pakistan Stock Exchange goes crashing and hits 38 months low.*

The Pakistan stock market came under massive selling pressure, as itdropped over 780 points to a 38-month low of 32,385 in intra-day trading onMonday.

Market analysts said investors extended selling on expectation for keyinterest rate hike by 100-200 basis points on Monday.

The government is set to aggressively increase interest rate under the IMFloan programme.

This would be another blow to the the stock market following massive rupeedepreciation that happened last week.