Bourses keep extending downbeat

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DHAKA, Dec 10, 2019 (BSS) – Country’s premier bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange
(DSE) closed today extending the losing streak as worried investors continued
their selling binge.

The broad index, DSEX closed at 4506.93 points on Tuesday with a loss of
26.81 points or 0.59 percent.

Besides, the two selective indices, Blue Chip index, DSE30 and the Shariah
index, DSES also went down by 13.13 points and 9.97 points to settle at
1548.37 points and 1012.29 points respectively.

On the DSE trading floor, a total number of 102,216 trades were executed in
today’s trading session with a trading volume of 109.99 million securities.

Losers took a strong lead over the gainers as out of 353 issues traded, 96
securities gained price while 203 declined and 54 remained unchanged.

The top 10 gainers were Miracle Industries, Greendelta Insurance, Matin
Spinning, ML Dying, Daffodil Computer, Reckit Benckiser, SEML FBSL Growth
Fund, Shepherd Industries, DBH and Bay Leasing.

Square Pharma topped the turnover chart followed by Saiham Cotton,
Sonarbangla Insurance, Sinobangla Industries, Daffodil Computer, Dutch-Bangla
Bank, New Line Clothing, Khulna Power, LafargeHolcim Bangladesh and BAT.

The top 10 losers were Sonarbangla Insurance, Saiham Textile, ICB Islami
bank, Eastern Insurance, SS Steel, AFC Agro, MI Cement, Mozaffar Hossain
Spinning, CAN Textile and BD Welding.

On the other hand, the port city bourse, Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)
also closed at red maintaining trend of the previous day.

CSCX and CASPI declined by 89.95 points and 145.61 points to stand at
8301.45 points and 13683.03 points respectively. At CSE, a total of
10,749,517 shares and mutual fund of 239 companies were traded, of which 60
issues advanced while 143 declined and 36 issues remained unchanged.