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Price fall in large-caps drives stocks down
DHAKA, June 10, 2018 (BSS) – Stock markets opened the week on Sunday with
downward trend due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities.
The falling major sectors were insurance and fuel and power. A total of
156 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
43.37 points down at 5,323.29. The Shariah DSES and the blue-chip DS30 also
followed the same trend with 8.17 points down at 1,229.87 and with 24.02
points down at 1,954.06.
The daily trade fell to 8.18 crore shares from Thursday’s 9.43 crore
shares and the day’s trade value at DSE decreased to Taka 407.73 crore from
Taka 454.41 crore of the previous session.
At DSE, out of the day’s 335 securities, prices of 107 securities closed
higher against 189 losing issues. The major gaining issues were Queen South,
Aziz Pipes, Ambee Pharma, Kohinoor and PHARMAID.
The major losing companies were PURABIGEN, BD Welding, ICBEPMF1S1, Aman
Feed and Northern Insurance.
UPGDCL topped the turnover list followed by Monno Ceramics, Berger PBL,
PHARMID and Beximco. The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) closed the day of
the week with downward trend with its major CASPI 132.02 points down at
16417.76.
At CSE, 221 issues were traded. Of those, 65 closed higher and 137 closed
lower when 58.92 lakh shares worth Taka 35.71 crore changed hands.
BSS/KUC/FI/ 1810 hrs