Marginal fall in Nepse index

January 11, 2004
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Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index, a barometer of the share trading, last week recorded a marginal fall of 0.67 points despite increase in the number of share transactions.

The Nepse index on Monday recorded 201.51 points, which on Friday stood at 200.84 points.

On group-wise manner, manufacturing group, insurance group and finance group gained in their respective indices. However, the rest of the groups either remained constant or witnessed a fall.

Commercial group, though recording a marginal slip, topped the total trade volume with 72.33 percent of the total trade at the stock market.

Altogether 44,535 share units were traded through 940 share transactions at over Rs 9.99 million, against previous week’s trading of 24,889 share units through 788 transactions at Rs.6.79 million.

Out of the 55 listed companies, only 41 companies saw their transaction this week, according to reports. nepalnews.com mr Jan 11