Stocks end week up on higher transactions

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Economic Reporter :
Stocks ended the week today upward with rising trend of major indices at Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges on higher transactions.
The broader DSEX of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) closed the week with 16.79 points higher at 5,736.40. The blue-chip DS30 and the Shariah DSES also followed the same trend with 43.44 points up at 2134.19 and with 8.99 points up at 1312.71.
Out of the 332 issues traded on DSE, 134 gained against 177 losing issues.
The week’s trade value at DSE increased to Taka 1016.44 crore from the last session of previous week Taka 817.48 crore and the weekly trade also rose to 25.73 crore shares from 22.64 crore of the previous week.
The top five gainers of the week were Regent Textile, LIBRAINFU, Padma Life, PHPMFAB Bank and GENMINISEA. The major losing issues of the week included Islami Bank, Fareast Finance, UCB, NFML and Central PHL.
The top five turnover leaders were City Bank, Beximco, Lanka Bangla Finance, IDLC and Beximco Pharma.
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also closed the week up, with its major CASPI index ending 45.94 points higher at 17,738.31.
Like DSE, most of the issues traded here closed higher when both the trade value and volume of shares increased.
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