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Trading began with an upward trend in the indices on Thursday, the last working day of the week, on the country’s two stock markets, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). This information was obtained from sources at the two exchanges.
Half an hour after trading began, that is at 10:30am, the DSE’s key index DSEX rose by 34 points from the previous day to stand at 5,630 points. The DSE Shariah index rose by 6 points and the DSE-30 index by 6 points to stand at 1,125 and 2,129 points respectively.
During this time, shares and mutual fund units worth Tk 129.87 crore were traded. Among the companies traded, the share prices of 290 rose, 42 fell and 43 remained unchanged. Earlier, in the first 5 minutes of trading, the DSEX rose by 15 points.
At 10:10am the index fell 6 points from its earlier position, then turned upward again. Twenty minutes after trading began, at 10:20am, the index rose by 28 points from the previous day to 5,625 points.
On the other hand, at 10:30am the Chittagong Stock Exchange’s (CSE) all-share index CASPI rose by 46 points to stand at 14,917 points, and the movement of the index remained upward after that as well.
Until 10:30am, shares and mutual fund units worth Tk 26 lakh were traded on the CSE. During this time, the prices of 19 companies rose, 3 fell and the share prices of 5 companies remained unchanged.
