Stocks witness fall on large-cap securities

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Economic Reporter :
Stocks Sunday closed the session of the week with downward trend due mainly to price fall in large-cap securities. The falling major sectors were financial institutions, food and allied and insurance. A total of 159 securities of the large-cap group moved down due to lower activities.
The broader DSEX index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) closed the day with 43.47 points down at 5,430.84. The Shariah DSES and the blue-chip DS30 also followed the same trend with 8.65 points down at 1,235.41 and with 13.64 points down at 1,905.09.
The daily trade fell to 15.13 crore shares from Thursday’s 17.58 crore shares and the day’s trade value at DSE decreased to Taka 534.31 crore from Taka 572.50 crore of the previous session.
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