Nepse (Nepal Stock Exchange), this week, posted a marginal gain of 5.18 points to 609.55 points from last week’s closing of 604.37 points.

The commercial banks group, the major market propeller, posted 6.67 points gain to elevate to 595.63 points and development banks gained 5.07 points to settle at 657.72 points. Others saw an increment of 11.75 points to jump to 657.74 points whereas of the nine sub-groups, two did not see any trading this week.

The hydropower sub-group lost 13.74 points to plunge to 813.95 points, trading declined by 4.89 points to 256.41 points and finance went down by 6.87 points to drop to 627.27 points, respectively.

This week’s top performers were National Hydropower (with Rs 100.21 million), Standard Chartered Bank Nepal (with Rs 52.21 million), Nepal Bangladesh Bank (with Rs 26.82 million), Nepal SBI Bank (with Rs 20.39 million) and Citizens’ Bank International (with Rs 15.68 million).

The 78-scrip sensitive index — considered blue chip shares in the domestic market — gained 1.14 points to go up to 153.67 from the Sunday morning’s opening of 152.53 points. Similarly, the float index — calculated on the basis of real transactions — also gained by a mere 0.32 point to reach 58.16 points from Sunday’s opening of 57.84 points.

The transaction amount for this week increased by 31.48 percent to Rs 370.13 million against last week’s increase of 12.10 percent.

However, the contribution of Group-A companies decreased to 44.89 percent from last week’s 53.75 percent. nepalnews.com

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