Stocks open week down as major sectors dip

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Economic Reporter :
Stock markets opened the week downtrend on Monday as most of the major sectors closed lower while daily transactions were also declining.
The major losing sectors were jute, IT sector, textile and pharmaceuticals and chemicals. A total of 173 securities of the large-cap group incurred loss due to lower activities.
The broader index DSEX of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) finished the first session of the week 33 points down at 5,218.01. The Shariah DSES and the blue-chip DS30 also followed it the same trend with 5.28 points down at 1,201.51 and with 1.62 points down at 1,842.16. The daily turnover in value at DSE declined to Taka 314.56 crore from Thursday’s Taka 499.70 crore and the volume trading shares fell to 8.60 crore shares from the previous session 12.37 crore shares.
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