Share index reaches record high at week’s close

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BSS, Dhaka :
The major price index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) reached at 14-month high on Thursday to finish a bullish week.
DSEX closed at 4791.33 with adding nearly 93 points over the week. Accordingly, the blue-chip DS30 ended over 11 points up at 1769.53 and the Shariah DSES 10.57 points higher at 1133.27.
The average daily trade volume increased by 28.68 percent to 12.60 crore shares when the value surged by 43.53 percent to Taka 12.60 crore.
Share price rose across the board due to the higher transaction and eventually drove the indices upward. Out of the 330 traded securities, 227 closed higher against 88 losing issues when 13 remained unchanged.
Bank, mutual funds and power were the major advancing sectors during the week when the top five gainers were Dragon Sweater, Generation Next, Miracle Industries, AB Bank and Asia Insurance.
The five major losing companies included National Polymer, Desh Garment, Aman Food, Ambee Pharma and BBSL.
The top five turnover leaders were AB Bank, Beximco Limited, Doreen Power, Square Pharma and BBSL.
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also closed the week up, with its major CASPI index ending 54.65 points higher at 14724.
Like DSE, most of the issues traded here closed higher when both the trade value and volume of shares increased significantly.
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