The index of Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) continued its bullish trend posting increment of 7.65 points over the week.
The weekly share trading at the country’s sole secondary market reached to 333.03 points on the last day of trading under the regular lot from 325.35 points of Sunday.
The Nepse index posted a growth of 7.17 points in previous week.
A total of 99,312 units of shares worth Rs 49,849,953 were traded through 991 transactions over the week. A total of 305,740 units of shares generating a turnover of Rs 98,553,860 were traded last week through 1,723 transactions.
Leading groups including commercial banks, development banks, and manufacturing groups maintained growth and the trade group remained constant while the finance group index declined during the week.
Group-wise share trading data shows that commercial banks group registered a significant rise of 9.6 points over the week reaching its index to 368.53 points from 358.93 points.
Likewise, indices of manufacturing, insurance and development banks group rose to 283.32 points, 342.05 points and 278.38 points respectively, up from 278.20 points, 337.19 points and 267.35 points.
The others group saw a robust growth of 13.7 points. Its index that opened at 331.69 points soared to 345.39 points. The hotel group posted a marginal increase, its index inching up to 183.55 points from 182.60 points.
The finance group became the sole loser at Nepse floor over the week. Its index decreased to 248.93 points, down from 249.07 points.
The weekly trading report shows that index of the trading group remained constant at 148.07.
Of the total transactions that took place over the week at the Nepse floor, the commercial banks group continued to capture the lion’s share of 82.88 percent. The share of finance group comprised 6.39 percent of total transactions, while the development banks group followed it at 6.35 percent. Likewise, the manufacturing group consisted of 2.41 percent, hotels 0.32 percent, the other group 0.01 percent and trading group 0.12 percent of the total transaction.