Nepse sees improvement with 74 points gain on Sunday – The Himalayan Times – Nepal’s No.1 English Daily Newspaper

KATHMANDU, JULY 11

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE), the country’s only secondary market, saw an improvement on the first trading day of the week, with the Nepse index rising 74.71 points.

The market, which has been on a downward trend in recent days, saw the benchmark index jump to 2,899.82 points, up 2.64 percent at the end of the trading day.

Daily sales also saw an increase with a total of 31,588,850 units of shares from 225 companies traded for Rs 8.061 billion.

The sensitive index, which measures the performance of Class “A” stocks, also rose 2.60 percent or 13.77 points to 543.43 points. Similarly, the float index that measures the performance of the shares actually traded fell 2.93 percent or 5.74 points to 201.17 points.

Likewise, all sub-indices were in the green today, with the life insurance index leading the pack of winners with a rise of 494.27 points, followed by non-life and the development banking indices with 378.53 points and 357.50 points, respectively.

At the end of the day, the total market cap reached Rs 4.033 trillion.