KATHMANDU, March 19: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) escalated by 64.35 points last week despite investors rushing to sell their shares to book profits.
The secondary market that opened at 2,566.90 points closed at 2,631.25 points. In a four-day trading session, the market gained a whopping 101.07 points on the first day. On the second day, Nepse inched up 0.15 points before going down by 17.15 points and 19.72 points on the next two consecutive days.
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There were transactions of 22,868,397 units of shares worth Rs 12.14 billion last week, up from the transactions of 21,025,081 units of shares worth Rs 10.23 billion in the previous week.
The investors were able to increase their book value by Rs 92.98 billion during the review period. The market capitalization increased to Rs 3.730 trillion from Rs 3.637 trillion.
