After a brief recovery the previous week, the index of Nepal Stock Exchange declined by 1.16 points over the week due to the decline in the index of commercial banks.
The weekly trading began at 382.63 points on Sunday, the first day of share transaction and closed at 381.47 points on Thursday, the last day of share transaction under regular lot.
The Nepse had registered 3.43 points growth previous week.
According to Nepse, a total of 300,093 units of shares worth over Rs 107.5 million were traded through 1,573 transactions over the week, as compared to transaction of 399,017 shares worth over Rs 119.7 million from 1,765 transactions of previous week.
The manufacturing group registered 5.47 points growth over the week, reaching its index to 322.29 points from 316.82 points, while the index of other group reached to413.96 points up from 412.09 points.
Likewise, the finance group’s index closed at 264.48 points on Thursday from the opening of 263.72 points. The trading group also registered a growth, as its index closed up at 150.72 points from the opening 148.11 points.
The index of commercial banks declined by 2.57 points reaching its index to 424.38 points on the closing day down from 426.95 points.
The indices of insurance group and the development banks group also registered losses over the week as their indices dropped respectively by 2.13 points and 4.32 points reaching to 392.98 points and 308.05 points on the last day, after opening at 395.11 points and 312.37 points respectively.
However, the index of the hotel group remained constant at 179.62 points throughout the week.
The commercial banks group continued to dominate the Nepse floor by capturing 80.83 percent of the total trading, while finance group followed it with 9.07 percent. The insurance group held 5.27 percent.