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Trading began with a mixed trend in indices on the country’s premier bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) today, Thursday, the last working day of the week. This information was obtained from DSE and CSE sources.
On Thursday (17 September), half an hour after the start of trading, at 10:30am, the DSE’s key index DSEX stood at 5,492 points, down 1 point from the previous day. At the same time, the DSE Shariah index rose 1 point to 1,099 points and the DSE-30 index fell 3 points to stand at 2,089 points. During this period, shares and mutual fund units worth Tk 81.09 crore were traded.
Among the companies traded during this time, the prices of 146 rose, 133 fell and the share prices of 85 remained unchanged. The top 10 companies in terms of trading until 10:30am are MBL First Mutual Fund, Orion Infusion, Sharp Industries, Paramount Textile, Malek Spinning, EXIM Bank First Mutual Fund, Envoy Textile, Alhaj Textile, Saiham Textile and Beximco Pharma.
Earlier, in the first 5 minutes after trading began, the DSEX index fell by 5 points. At 10:10am the index fell another 3 points and a downward trend was seen thereafter. Twenty minutes after the start of trading, at 10:20am, the index came down to 5,481 points, 12 points lower than the previous day.
On the other hand, at 10:30am the Chittagong Stock Exchange’s all-share index CASPI rose 1 point to stand at 14,675 points. After that, the movement of the index was seen to be upward.
Until 10:30am, shares and mutual fund units worth Tk 3.80 crore were traded on the CSE. During this time, the prices of 13 companies rose, 9 fell and the share prices of 3 remained unchanged.
