Equities finally received support at Pakistan's Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) in last trading session of the week Friday as its main index regained 9,600 levels. The benchmark KSE 100-Index surged by 0.36 percent or 34.38 points to close at 9,614.19 levels, KSE 30-Index gained 0.38 percent or 38.30 points to conclude at 10,056.18 levels, KSE All Share Index increased by 0.39 percent or 26.26 points to finish at 6,821.14 levels. The market started of the day on a positive note, as has been the case during the whole week, with some volatility but it spent most of the time in the green zone where after the halfway stage, it hit the lowest level of the day of 9,552.48 levels. However, a strong buying spree entered the market just an hour before the closing bells which removed all of the losses and the key index jumped to its intraday high of 9,637.52 before closing just a shade lower. Analysts pointed out that investors mostly remained active in chemicals, banking, telecom, power generation, and cement sectors. Market volumes almost remained flat as a turnover of 183.998 million shares was recorded Friday as compared to Thursday's trading of 182.775 million shares, showing a meagre increase by 1. 223 million shares. In broader market, a total of 349 scrips changed hands during the course of the day, out of which, gainers outnumbered losers with a ratio of 200 to 130, whereas prices of 19 other issues remained unchanged. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is going to announce its key policy rate for the February-March-2010 tenure on Saturday where analysts are sensing a rate cut to the range of 25 basis points to 100 basis points. On the flip side, there is another group of analysts who is expecting the central bank to keep its key discount rate unchanged. Commenting on the market proceedings, market analysts told Xinhua that investors went on a buying spree ahead of the monetary policy announcement as some newspapers quoted analysts as expecting a cut in the range of 50-100bps in the SBP's key discount rate. They further elaborated that positive corporate results by the listed companies also added to the buying euphoria as on the top three fertilizer producers, Fauji Fertilizer Company Ltd (FFCL) announced its financial results for the Calendar Year 2009 on Thursday posting a record profit after tax of 8.823 billion rupees (one U.S. dollar equals 84.7 rupees) besides declaring a final cash dividend of 3.25 percent per share. Analysts pointed that the market was anticipating bonus shares from the FFC which it didn't announce for its stakeholders, therefore some pressure was witnessed in its share prices on Thursday. However, the investors appreciated the FFC profits Friday and opted for taking positions towards right throughout the day, they added. Lotte Pakistan continued to lead the top volume accumulators on last trading session of the week and recorded a turnover of 55.135 million shares. Wyeth Pakistan Limited surged the most by 60.00 rupees to conclude at 1,280.00 rupees while UniLever Pakistan topped the major decliners with 95.53 rupees slump to close at 2,750.10 rupees. 