Economic Reporter :
Stocks witnessed sluggish trading on the first day of the week on Sunday as most indices on the country’s both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed a fall on lower activities of large-cap securities.
The major falling sectors were food and allied, travel and leisure, textile, ceramics and insurance. A total of 156 securities of the large-cap group incurred loss due to lower activities.
The broader index DSEX of DSE finished the first session of the week with 34.42 points down at 6,268.42. The Shariah DSES and the blue-chip DS30 also followed the same trend with 4.73 points down at 1,402.87 and with 12 points down at 2,283.22.
The daily turnover in value at DSE declined to Taka 485 crore from Thursday’s Taka 518.76 crore and the volume of shares fell to 12.48 crore from 13.67 crore shares of the previous session.
At DSE, out of the day’s 335 securities, prices of 96 securities closed higher against 189 losing issues.
The top five gaining companies were Wata Chemical, BSCCL, GRAMEENS2, Intech and National Tubes. The major losers were Shyampur Sugar, United Air, DSSL, Monno Ceramic and Agrani Insurance.
Stocks witnessed sluggish trading on the first day of the week on Sunday as most indices on the country’s both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed a fall on lower activities of large-cap securities.
The major falling sectors were food and allied, travel and leisure, textile, ceramics and insurance. A total of 156 securities of the large-cap group incurred loss due to lower activities.
The broader index DSEX of DSE finished the first session of the week with 34.42 points down at 6,268.42. The Shariah DSES and the blue-chip DS30 also followed the same trend with 4.73 points down at 1,402.87 and with 12 points down at 2,283.22.
The daily turnover in value at DSE declined to Taka 485 crore from Thursday’s Taka 518.76 crore and the volume of shares fell to 12.48 crore from 13.67 crore shares of the previous session.
At DSE, out of the day’s 335 securities, prices of 96 securities closed higher against 189 losing issues.
The top five gaining companies were Wata Chemical, BSCCL, GRAMEENS2, Intech and National Tubes. The major losers were Shyampur Sugar, United Air, DSSL, Monno Ceramic and Agrani Insurance.
