KATHMANDU, Dec 14: Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) on Thursday increased by 6.55 points to close at 1,994.60 points.

The secondary market opened at 1,988.04 points and plunged to the day’s low at 1,974.37 points within the first 15 minutes of trading. The market went through a range of fluctuations and hit the day’s high at 1,997.08 points in the next two and a half hours. The index fell around three points in the remaining trading time.

The sensitive index that measures the performance of ‘A’ class companies also added 1.06 points. The daily turnover amount further declined to Rs 3.151 billion from Rs 3.909 billion on Wednesday. 

Five out of 13 groups were losers. The trading index dropped the largest of 26.55 points.  Of the gainers, non-life insurance added the highest of 55.71 points in its market value.

Among individual companies, 141 were recorded gainers whereas 91 companies were losers.

Sonapur Minerals and Oil Limited had transactions of its shares worth Rs 160.47 million and topped in the trade volume. Bottlers Nepal (Balaju) Limited was recorded at the top of the gainers’ lists while Gurans Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited lost the highest of 4.98 percent of its market value. 

 
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