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Price fall in large-caps drives stocks down
DHAKA, July 2, 2019 (BSS) – Stock markets today closed of the week with
downward trend due mainly to price fall in large-cap securities despite
higher transactions.
The falling major sectors were insurance, financial institutions and banks.
A total of 132 securities of the large-cap group moved down due to lower
activities.
The broader DSEX index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) closed the day with
36.70 points down at 5,384.93. The Shariah DSES and the blue-chip DS30 also
followed the same trend with 9.53 points down at 1,235.16 and with 16.51
points down at 1,912.58.
The daily trade rose to 14.62 crore shares from Sunday’s 12.93 crore shares
and the day’s trade value at DSE decreased to Taka 482.71 crore from Taka
469.75 crore of the previous session.
At DSE, out of the day’s 353 securities, prices of 143 securities closed
higher against 174 losing issues.
The major gaining issues were Runner Auto, 1STPRIMFMF, BPML, MIRACLEIND
and CAPMIBBLMF while the major losing companies were SEMLFBSLGF, Global
Insurance, ILFSL, Peoples Insurance and Prime Bank.
Runner Auto topped the turnover list followed by National Polymer, UPGDCL,
BPML and ESQUIRENIT.
The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) closed the day of the week with
downward trend with its major CASPI 122.21 points down at 16,512.
At CSE, 264 issues were traded. Of those, 115 closed higher and 126 closed
lower when 1.29 crore shares worth Taka 54.17 crore changed hands.
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