2024-08-23 03:50:30
Published: 15:09, 20 August 2024
The third working day of trading in the capital market ended on Tuesday (August 20) with a big fall in the indices of the Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges (DSE-CSE). On this day, the amount of money traded in DSE decreased compared to the previous working day, but CSE increased. However, the prices of shares and units of mutual funds of most of the companies participating in the transactions on DSE and CSE decreased on this day.
According to DSE and CSE sources, at the end of the day, the main index of DSE, DSEX, is down 60.13 points from the previous day at 5,715 points. The DSE Sharia Index fell by 15.45 points to 1,229 points and the DS30 Index fell by 27.86 points to 2,093 points.
A total of 397 shares and units of companies were traded on DSE. Among them, the share and unit prices of 64 companies increased, 301 decreased and 32 remained unchanged.
A total of Tk 518 crore 61 lakh shares and units were traded in DSE today. Shares and units worth Tk 807.15 million were traded on the previous working day.
On the other hand, the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) CSCX index is down 113.75 points at 9,892 points. Overall index CASPI decreased by 185.92 points to 16 thousand 430 points, Sharia index decreased by 12.33 points to 1 thousand 44 points and CSE30 index decreased by 122.32 points to 12 thousand 913 points.
Shares and units of 215 companies were traded on CSE. Among them, the share and unit prices of 39 companies increased, 153 decreased and 23 remained unchanged.
At the end of the day, shares and units worth Tk 9 crore 19 lakh were traded in CSE. Shares and units worth Tk 8 crore 62 lakh were traded on the previous working day.
Dhaka/NT/Eva