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A stock exchange brings companies and investors together. A stock exchange helps companies raise capital or money by issuing equity shares to be sold to investors. The companies invest those funds back into their business, and investors, ideally, earn a profit from their investment in those companies.

The findings suggest that the stock market in Pakistan is not that developed to play its due role in influencing aggregate demand. A disturbing feature of the stock market in Pakistan is that it cannot be characterised as the leading indicator of economic activity.

The main purpose of the stock market is raising of capital through investment in shares of listed companies. Listed companies are those which issue shares in the stock market to raise capital.

PSX was established on 11 January 2016 after the merger of individual stock exchanges of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. PSX provides a reliable, orderly, liquid and efficient digitized market place where investors can buy and sell listed companies; common stocks and other securities.

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The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of KSE-100 Index was at 14 percent during last-30 years, Umair Naseer at Topline Securities said. It means that if an investment of Rs1000 was made in 1991 at the Pakistan bourse, it would have increased to close to 47,000 by FY21, a gain of around 47 times, he said.

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Primary markets allow companies to raise capital without or before holding an initial public offering so as to make as much direct profit as possible. Capital markets are overseen by the financial regulators all over the world and in case of Pakistan, Securities Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).