ZCZC
BSS-18
STOCK-WEDNESDAY-CLOSE
Stocks witness up on large-cap vibe
DHAKA, Jan 9, 2019 (BSS) – Stocks witnessed upward trend on Wednesday as
major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges were found rising
trend with higher activities of some large-cap securities.
The rising major sectors were insurance and engineering. A total of 120
securities of the large-cap group moved up on higher activities.
The broader DSEX index of the DSE closed the session with 27.82 points up
at 5,798.59. The Shariah DSES and the blue-chip DS30 also followed the same
trend with 7.93 points up at 1,315.99 and with 9.93 points up at 2,011.12
respectively.
The volume of shares decreased to 27.86 crore from Tuesday’s 29.94 crore
shares. But the daily turnover in value at DSE increased to Taka 1,025.74
crore from Tuesday’s Taka 1,010.03 crore.
At the DSE, price of 148 securities out of the day’s 346 traded issues
closed higher against 161 losing issues.
The major gaining issues were United Insurance, Prime Life, Sun Life
Insurance, Prime Insurance and BENGALWTL while the major losing issues were
Delta Spinning, Style Craft, Meghan Pet, Apex Spinning and ISNLTD.
Olympic topped the turnover leaders followed by Active Fine, BBS Cables,
Singer BD and Dhaka Bank.
The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) closed the day of the week with upward
trend with its major CASPI 71.72 points up at 17,779.51.
At the CSE, 265 issues were traded. Of those, 126 closed higher and 121
closed lower while 1.78 crore shares worth Taka 62.95 crore changed hands.
BSS/KUC/SSS/1643 hrs