2024-07-04 23:20:47
Ministry of Public Administration may allow government employees to invest in the capital market of Bangladesh. The Ministry sent a draft amendment to the Government Servants (Conduct) Rules, 1979 to the Law Ministry, which came back after scrutiny. In view of such news, on Thursday (July 4) there was a big rise in the country’s stock market index. This rise has brought relief to investors.
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) ended the week’s last business day Thursday (July 4) with big gains in the indices. On this day, compared to the previous working day, the amount of money traded in DSE and CSE has increased. However, the unit prices of shares and mutual funds of most of the companies traded on DSE and CSE rose.
According to DSE and CSE sources, at the end of the day, the main index of DSE, DSEX, increased by 123.71 points from the previous day and stood at 5,497 points. The DSE Shariah index rose 22.14 points to 1,208 points and the DS30 index rose 38.40 points to 1,951 points.
A total of 396 shares and units of companies were traded on DSE. Among them, the share and unit prices of 365 companies increased, 13 decreased and 18 remained unchanged.
A total of Tk 770 crore 70 lakh shares and units were traded in DSE on Thursday. Shares and units worth Tk 539 crore 27 lakh were traded on the previous working day.
On the other hand, Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) CSCX index increased by 202.16 points to 9 thousand 331 points. Overall index CASPI increased by 334.31 points to 15 thousand 257 points, Sharia index increased by 16.04 points to 1 thousand 15 points and CSE30 index decreased by 242.89 points to 12 thousand 204 points.
Shares and units of 247 companies were traded on CSE. Among them, the share and unit prices of 201 companies increased, 27 decreased and 19 remained unchanged.
At the end of the day, shares and units of Tk 24 crore 65 lakh were traded in CSE. Shares and units worth Tk 5 crore 55 lakh were traded on the previous working day.