The index of Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) continued its upward trend this week, posting a 0.06 point rise.

According to weekly figure of the Nepse, the only secondary market, its index reached to 305.50 points on Thursday, the final day of transactions under the regular lot from 305.44 points on Sunday, the first day of weekly trading.

A total of 64,583 unit shares worth Rs 29.8 million were transacted over the week through 585 transactions. A total of 157,924 unit shares worth Rs 52.6 million were traded during the previous week.

Group-wise share trading shows that the index of the trading group increased to 142.83 points from 134.84 points. Likewise, the insurance group registered a rise of 0.44 points reaching its index to 331.07 points from 330.63 points.

However, commercial banks group saw a nominal decline of 0.1 percent with its index declining to 329.02 points from 329.12 points. The indices of finance and development banks groups decreased to 246.60 points and 228.46 points respectively, from 247.40 points and 229.89 points.

However, the indices of manufacturing, hotel and others groups remained static throughout the week at 274.42 points, 178.57 points and 354.13 points respectively.

Like the previous weeks, the commercial banks group captured 79.08 percent of the total share transaction. Finance group accounted for 9.16 percent market share while manufacturing group made up 7.33 percent share. Trading and insurance groups took 2.18 percent and 1.72 percent share respectively.