The major price index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) reached at 14-month high yesterday to finish a bullish week, reports BSS.
DSEX closed at 4791.33 with adding nearly 93 points over the week. Accordingly, the blue-chip DS30 ended over 11 points up at 1769.53 and the Shariah DSES 10.57 points higher at 1133.27.
The average daily trade volume increased by 28.68 per cent to 12.60 crore shares when the value surged by 43.53 per cent to Tk 12.60 crore.
Share price rose across the board due to the higher transaction and eventually drove the indices upward. Out of the 330 traded securities, 227 closed higher against 88 losing issues when 13 remained unchanged.
Bank, mutual funds and power were the major advancing sectors during the week when the top five gainers were Dragon Sweater, Generation Next, Miracle Industries, AB Bank and Asia Insurance.
The five major losing companies included National Polymer, Desh Garment, Aman Food, Ambee Pharma and BBSL.
The top five turnover leaders were AB Bank, Beximco Limited, Doreen Power, Square Pharma and BBSL.
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also closed the week up, with its major CASPI index ending 54.65 points higher at 14724.
Like DSE, most of the issues traded here closed higher when both the trade value and volume of shares increased significantly.
With the transaction of over 37 crore shares, the daily trade volume at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) surged to a new high on Wednesday, taking the trade value to about five-years' highest and the major price index to 13-months' peak as well.
The daily transaction volume reached 37.97 crore shares, which was the highest after 30.14 crore shares of October 3, 2012. The transaction value also surged to Tk 1,478.18 crore, while block trade contributed to about Tk 841 crore. This was highest after Tk 1,341.26 crore, traded on July 31, 2011 on Wednesday.
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also recovered significantly, with its CASPI index ending 59.68 points up at 14,669.59 on Wednesday.
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