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A new low for the retreat: KSE-100 falls 1.18% to 165,124, 11.91% below the record, as no cement name rises and the securities complex drops 2.44% on a thin 363m tape

The KSE-100 fell 1.18% to 165,124 on Monday, its sharpest fall since 5 October's 1.36% and the deepest close of the entire retreat from the 6 July record, 743 points, or 0.45%, below the previous low of 165,867 set a week earlier. The index is 3,585 points under the 10% line at 168,710 for an eighth straight session, roughly 11.91% below the record, 3.45% under the 24 July low of 171,021 for a thirteenth, 1.69% below the 14 September low of 167,971 and 2.85% below September's close of 169,969. Breadth was 134 advancers against 322 decliners across the 498-name board, with ten of 33 sectors higher and six closing without an advancer, on a 363m tape - the third-lightest since at least 24 August, behind 9 October's 309m and 16 September's 356m - that put 223m through declining names against 140m in advancing ones. The selling reached the index engines: Cement fell 2.04% with 18 of 19 names lower and none higher, the securities complex 2.44% with 26 of 35 down, the E&Ps 1.55% with all four lower, Oil and Gas Marketing 1.28% with all ten, Automobile Assembler 1.16% with all ten, Power Generation and Distribution 1% with 11 of 16 lower and Commercial Banks 0.75% with 16 of 19 down. The KSE-30's 1.68% fall was the deepest of the four gauges and the All-Share's 0.95% the mildest.