Stocks close week up with higher transactions
BSS
Stocks closed the week yesterday upward with rising trend of all major price indices at Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges on higher transactions, reports BSS.
The daily average trade value at DSE was 41.20 per cent up at Tk 515.53 crore and the trade volume was 52.20 per cent up at 14.46 crore shares.
The broader DSEX of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) closed the week with 84.57 points up at 6,050.20. The blue-chip DS30 and Shariah DSES also closed the week with 5.44 points up at 2,230.93 and with 15.87 points up at 1,405.44.
Out of the 339 traded securities, 241 closed higher against 72 losing issues when 25 remained unchanged.
During the week, the top five gainers were Fine Foods Limited, Apex Foods Limited, Intech Limited, Anwar Galvanizing and Agni Systems. The five major losing companies were Imam Button Industries, Eastland Insurance Company, Progressive Life Insurance, Northern Jute Manufacturing Co and Asia Insurance Co.
The top five turnover leaders were LankaBangla Finance, Grameen Phone, Square Pharmaceuticals, BRAC Bank and Monno Ceramic Industries.
Like DSE, major indices of the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also closed the week up and most of the issues traded here closed higher when both the trade value and volume of shares increased.
