LAHORE - Investors' buying in the sectors of oil and gas, fertilisers, cement and banking kept the bullish trend intact at the stock market on fourth consecutive day of the week as market gained 142.30 points and closed at 6,022.44 points; crossing the psychological barrier of 6,000 points. Buying was evident across-the-board from the beginning of the trading session especially in the banking sector which contributed 59.32m shares to the total market volume. Volumes in the ready market also surged remarkably to 235.7m shares as against 191.6m shares Wednesday. The market started with an increase of 38 points and index soon crossed the 6,000-point limit. Though the bourse achieved more points during intra-day business but profit-taking in the second session limited morning gains. The reports of the peace agreements in northern areas made a positive impact on the bourse and market remained in positive zone throughout the day. According to stock analysts, the increase in the investors' confidence was mainly due to the encouraging results of trading in various companies. A senior trader was of the view that bourse was bullish in the morning and index crossed 6,000 psychological level easily but since the sensitivity of the local bourses is still high and even a slight jitter can lead to a substantial decline. Honouring the payments of Euro bound maturity; talks of reinstating the Pakistani bourses to the MSCI (frontier index), positive signals from the Dubai conference and improvement on economic indicators, were the main causes of investors' confidence. The KSE-30 lost 18.96 points to close at 6,065.99 points while KMI-30 also secured 212.88 points and wrapped up at 8,079.53 points. At KSE, 195 scrips recorded gain, 75 remained decline and 13 kept unchanged out of 283 scrips traded on the day. On Thursday, Pak PTA Ltd emerged as volume leader of the day with 33.8 million shares followed by Oil and Gas Dev Co with 17.4 million shares and Bank Al-Falah with 11.6 million shares. At KSE, Oil and Gas Dev Com, Bank Al-Falah and National Bank gained their values by Rs 2.30, Re 0.92 and Rs 2.96 closed at Rs 55.86, Rs 14.07 and Rs 70.20 respectively. MCB Bank Ltd, Jah Sidd Co and WorldCall Telecom also secured their values by Rs 1.06, Re 0.52 and Re 0.17 closed at Rs 139.39, Rs 32.93 and Rs 2.83 respectively. PTCLA, Fauji Fert Bin Qasim and TRG Pakistan also attained further value by Re 0.21, Re 9.71 and Re 0.16 closed at Rs 15.07, Rs 18.32 and Rs 1.51 respectively. NIB Bank, Bank Al-Falah and Fauji Cement also landed into positive zone and gained by Re 0.04, Re 0.76 and Rs 0.24 closed at Rs 5.03, Rs 3.55 and Rs 6.08 respectively. On the other hand, Pak PTA Ltd, 1st Capital Sec and Netsol Technol shed their values by Re 0.09, Re 0.98 and Re 0.29 closed at Rs 2.61, Rs 15,04 and Rs 20.87 respectively. While LSE also gained 55.33 points as LSE-25 closed at 1,773.16 points as compared to 1,717.83 points on Wednesday wherein 28,042,200 shares were traded as compared 23,007,100 shares on Wednesday while 44 scrips remained equal, 9 shed values and 60 moved up.