DHAKA, Feb 19, 2020 (BSS) – Country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock
Exchange (DSE) bounced back today after a single-day halt as investors
demonstrated their buying appetite on sector-specific shares.
The broad index, DSEX closed at 4758.00 points on Wednesday with a gain
of 17.60 points or 0.37 percent.
Besides, two selective indices, Blue Chip index, DSE30 and Shariah
index, DSES also went up by 8.68 points and 5.67 points to settle at 1599.55
points and 1087.01 points respectively.
On the DSE trading floor, a total number of 198,135 trades were executed
in today’s trading session with a trading volume of 291.25 million
securities.
Market turnover, the crucial indicator, stood at Taka 8.37 billion,
declined by 18 percent over previous day’s 13 months’ highest mark of Taka
10.21 billion.
Loser took a lead over gainers as out of 356 issues traded, 143
securities gained price while 180 declined and 33 remained unchanged.
The top 10 gainers were ICB AMCL 3rd NRB Mutual Fund, BSRM Steel,
Hakkani Pulp, BSRM Limited, Global Heavy Chemicals, Alif Industries, IFIL
Islamic Mutual Fund 1, Prime Bank First ICB Mutual Fund, Regent Textile and
Kohinur Chemicals.
Summit Power topped the turnover chart followed by Orion Pharma,
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh, Khulna Power, SK Trims, Grameenphone, National
Tubes, Dorin Power, Beximco Limited and Golden Harvest.
The top 10 losers were United Air, Saiham Textile, Family Tex, Islami
Insurance, Tung Hai, Jute Spinners, Pravati Insurance, BIFC, FAS Finance and
Altex.
On the other hand, port city bourse, Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)
also returned to green overcoming the bearish trend of previous day.
CSCX and CASPI increased by 30.93 points and 50.20 points to stand at
8828.27 points and 14554.84 points respectively.
At CSE, a total of 26,771,411 shares and mutual fund of 261 companies
were traded, of which 117 issues advanced while 111 declined and 33 issues
remained unchanged.