Following a 2.02 points growth of the previous week, the index of Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) declined by 0.90 points over the week due to weak performance of commercial banks group.

The weekly data of Nepse shows that its index which opened at 339.60 points on Sunday decreased to close at 338.70 points on Thursday, the last day for trading under the regular lot.

The manufacturing group, trading group, finance group and development bank group maintained growth while the indices of commercial banks, the other group and insurance group declined. The index of hotel group remained unchanged.

According to Nepse, a total of 217,182 units of shares worth Rs 92,707,754 were traded through 2,199 transactions over the week. A total of 233,309 units of shares worth Rs 79,135,907 were traded through 1,941 transactions in the previous week.

The index of commercial bank group fell to 377.42 points, down from 378.75 points. The index of the others group decreased to 326.81 points from 333.41 points. Likewise, the index of insurance group declined marginally to 341.05 points, from 341.48 points.

Trading group saw a rise of 5.82 points reaching its index began to 147.54 points up from 141.72 points. Indices of manufacturing and finance groups increased to 291.50 points and 251.40 points respectively, up from 290.23 points and 250.47 points.

The development banks group registered a growth of 3.38 points, with its index rising to 272.87 points, from 269.49 points. The index of hotel remained static at 181.54 points.