Stocks begin week in downbeat

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Economic Reporter :
Country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Sunday began week registering downbeat.
The broad index, DSEX closed at 4400.14 points on the day, first day of week, with a loss of 59.15 points or 1.32 percent.
Besides, two selective indices, Blue Chip index, DSE30 and the Shariah index, DSES also went down by 25.81 points and 13.97 points to settle at 1480.31 points and 995.43 points respectively.
On the DSE trading floor, a total number of 103,119 trades were executed in today’s trading session with a trading volume of 107.80 million securities.
Loser took a strong lead over gainers as out of 354 issues traded, 52 securities gained price while 269 declined and 33 remained unchanged.
The top 10 gainers were SS Steel, Pragati Insurance, BBS, Anlima Yarn, Quashem Industries, Unique Hotel, National Tubes, Takaful Insurance, BSC and Pioneer Insurance. Khulna Power topped the turnover chart followed by Lafarge Holcim, Bank Asia, National Tubes, City Bank, Pioneer Insurance, Beacon Pharma, SS Steel, Standard Ceramics and Trust Bank.
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