Country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) slipped yesterday after a single-day break as the risk-averse investors went on selling binge on the selective large-cap. The broad index, DSEX closed at 4671.33 points on yesterday with a loss of 31.64 points or 0.67 per cent.

Besides, the two selective indices, Blue Chip index, DSE30 and the Shariah index, DSES also went down by 11.80 points and 5.56 points to settle at 1605.82 points and 1055.84 points respectively. On the DSE trading floor, a total number of 127,081 trades were executed in today’s trading session with a trading volume of 177.40 million securities.

Losers took a strong lead over the gainers as out of 346 issues traded, 106 securities gained price while 192 declined and 48 remained unchanged. The top 10 gainers were – RD Food, Legacy Footwear, Amra Network, Beacon Pharmaceuti-cal, Yeakin Polymer, Miracle Industries, Silva Pharmaceutical, Evince Textile, IT Consultant and Standard Ceramic. SK Trims topped the turnover chart followed by Saiham Cotton, Sonar-bangla Insurance, Indo-Pharmaceuticals, Paramount Insurance, LafargeHolcim Bangladesh, Daffodil Computer, Mercantile Insurance and Beacon Pharmaceuticals.

The top 10 losers were – Family Tex, Tunghai Knitting, ICB Islami Bank, Inter-national Leasing, Sinobangla Industries, Sonargangla Insurance, Union Capital, MBL First Mutual Fund, Queen South Textile and Apollo Ishpat. 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 54.20 points and 91.05 points to stand at 8622.71 points and 14203.34 points respectively. At CSE, a total of 10,350,056 shares and mutual fund of 249 companies were traded, of which 82 issues advanced while 141 declined and 26 issues remained unchanged.