Stocks continue upward trend

Stocks continued to maintain upward trend on Wednesday as the major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges were found finishing upward with higher transactions of large-cap securities, reports BSS.
Among the rising major sectors were pharmaceutical and chemical, engineering and financial institutions when 229 securities of the large-cap group incurred gain due to higher activities. Some service and real estate, textile and insurance sectors declined marginally.
The broader DSEX index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) closed the day with 96.13 points up at 5488.23. The blue-chip DS30 and Shariah DSES also followed the same trend with 26.60 points up at 1993.86 and 17.33 points up at 1278.41. The daily turnover in volume was 27.02 crore shares when the daily trade value was Tk 898.74 crore.
At DSE, out of the day’s 328 traded issues, prices of 281 securities closed higher against 43 losing issues.

Stocks continue upward trend

Stocks continued to maintain upward trend on Wednesday as the major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges were found finishing upward with higher transactions of large-cap securities, reports BSS. Among the rising major sectors were pharmaceutical and chemical, engineering and financial institutions when 229 securities of the large-cap group incurred gain due to higher activities. Some service and real estate, textile and insurance sectors declined marginally. The broader DSEX index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) closed the day with 96.13 points up at 5488.23. The blue-chip DS30 and Shariah DSES also followed the same trend with 26.60 points up at 1993.86 and 17.33 points up at 1278.41. The daily turnover in volume was 27.02 crore shares when the daily trade value was Tk 898.74 crore. At DSE, out of the days 328 traded issues, prices of 281 securities closed higher against 43 losing issues.