{"id":45,"date":"2026-02-26T06:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:59:53","slug":"bears-weaken-grip-on-bourse-as-kse-100-advances-over-1000-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/2026\/02\/26\/bears-weaken-grip-on-bourse-as-kse-100-advances-over-1000-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears weaken grip on bourse as KSE-100 advances over 1,000 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2611041797d8321-300x180.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2611041797d8321-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2611041797d8321.webp 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<article id=\"1975879\" class=\"story relative overflow-hidden box    \" data-id=\"1975879\" data-layout=\"story\" data-tags=\"\">\n<div class=\"story__excerpt      text-3  font-georgia      mb-1.5\" dir=\"auto\">Despite an early 0.35pc rise on Thursday, KSE-100 grapples with fragile investor sentiment and sharp intraday swings, reflecting sustained volatility after recent losses.<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story__time    text-2.5 text-gray-400   font-arial  uppercase  text-2.5 text-gray-500  \"><span class=\"timestamp--label\">Published<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"timestamp--time  timeago\" title=\"26 Feb, 2026 11:54am\">4 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/article>\n<div class=\"text-gray-500 uppercase text-2.75 my-2\">Related<\/div>\n<nav class=\"pb-2 flex flex-col\"><a class=\"related__list__item font-merriweather pt-1 pb-2 text-gray-700  text-2.5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1975658\/kse-100-plunges-over-1600-points-closes-in-the-red\">KSE-100 plunges over 1,600 points, closes in the red<\/a><a class=\"related__list__item font-merriweather pt-1 pb-2 text-gray-700  text-2.5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1975678\/imf-mission-opens-talks-with-central-bank-on-pakistans-loan-programmes\">IMF mission opens talks with central bank on Pakistan&#8217;s loan programmes<\/a><a class=\"related__list__item font-merriweather pt-1 pb-2 text-gray-700  text-2.5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1975684\/pm-shehbaz-stresses-need-for-reducing-direct-taxes-in-upcoming-budget-to-facilitate-business-community\">PM Shehbaz stresses need for reducing direct taxes in upcoming budget to facilitate business community<\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite an early 0.35pc rise on Thursday, KSE-100 grapples with fragile investor sentiment and sharp intraday swings, reflecting sustained volatility after recent losses. Published\u00a04 minutes ago Related KSE-100 plunges over 1,600 points, closes in the redIMF mission opens talks with central bank on Pakistan&#8217;s loan programmesPM Shehbaz stresses need for reducing direct taxes in upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestudents.com\/umar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}