The index of Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) continued to gain last week as well.

The Nepse index rose by 4.83 points over the week, to 378.87 points on Thursday, the last day for trading under the regular from 374.04 points on Sunday, the opening day of the share transaction.

The Nepse index gained a marginal growth of 0.59 point in previous week.

According to statistics of stock exchange, a total of 204,808 shares worth Rs 83.6 million were traded through 1,103 transactions over the week against 547,714 units of shares worth Rs 178.8 million the pervious week.

The Nepse index of almost all groups recorded a rise in the share prices of their companies over the week.

Reversing its downward trend, the commercial banks gained 4.98 points over the week reaching its index to 426.05 points, up from 421.07 points.

The indices of manufacturing, hotel, and insurance groups increased to 299.94 points, 180 points, and 369.17 points respectively, up from 297.46 points, 178.84 points and 367.38 points. The index of the others group surged to 415.23 points from 398.43 points.

Finance and development banks groups also gained, with their indices inching up 258.77 points and 276.33 points respectively, from 258.57 points and 275.25 points.

The index of trading group remained static at 148.11 points throughout the week.

The commercial banks group accounted for 72.13 percent of the total share transaction. The others group accounted for 15.24 percent share. Insurance group had 6.36 percent share, followed by finance group with 5.47 percent market share.