Stock market ends week amid fall

UNB :

The Dhaka stock market ended the week with a decline in the index for all five trading days.
On Thursday, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the DSEX, fell by 8 points, closing at 5,133 points.

The blue-chip DS-30 index decreased by 4 points, while the Shariah-based DSES index dropped by 6 points.

Compared to the previous day, trading volume was reduced by Tk 43 crore. A total of 1,29,000 shares, worth Tk 363 crore, changed hands through 14.83 million transactions.

Along with the index decline, the share prices of most companies also fell. But 141 companies saw price increases, while 196 experienced price drops, and the share prices of 62 companies remained unchanged.

Among the companies in DSE’s A-category, out of 220, 88 saw price increases, 96 saw price declines, and 36 remained unchanged.

In the B-category, 88 companies recorded price increases for 24 companies, while 53 saw price drops, and 11 stayed constant. In the Z-category, 86 companies had 26 with rising prices, 46 with falling prices, and 14 that remained unchanged.