KATHMANDU, Jan 9: The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) fell by 18.14 points on Thursday as investors sought to book their capital gains following the increase in share values over the past four days.
The secondary market opened at 2,653.23 points and closed at 2,635.09 points. During the period, the market reached the largest at 2,656.51 points in the pre-opening session while it plunged to as low as 2,629.52 points when the trading time was left for 12 minutes.
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The sensitive index which measures the performance of ‘A’ class companies also declined 2.97 points with the heavyweight banking subindex losing six points. Daily turnover inclined to Rs 7.30 billion from Rs 6.40 billion on Wednesday.
Only hotels and tourism index gained 66.29 points. Of the 12 losers, life insurance shed the largest of 146.98 points, followed by development banks with a decline of 114.48 points.
Regarding the individual companies, only 55 were gainers while 180 were registered as losers. Super Madi Hydropower Limited had the biggest turnover of its shares worth Rs 448.80 million.
Saptakoshi Development Bank with a fall of 9.23 percent was recorded as the topmost loser. Barahi Hydropower Public Limited and Himalayan Power Partner Ltd gained the highest of 10 percent of their market values.
