Weekly Wrap-up (Review Period April 5 to April 9, 2015)

ShareSansar, April 10:

Nawin Sah

The Benchmark Index of Nepal Stock Exchange Limited (NEPSE) gained 6.8 points or 0.72 percent to close at 946.89 level compared to last week closing of 940.09.

NEPSE Sensitive and Float also gained 2 points and 0.5 point to close at 201.88 and 66.78 levels than last week.


Journey of the local bourse started this week with 5.84 points plunge recording close at 934.25.

Then NEPSE gained 3.87 points on Monday to close at 938.12 and plunged 2.59 points on Tuesday settling at 935.53 level.

Thereafter the benchmark index witnessed 6.62 points and 4.74 points gain on Wednesday and Thursday by closing at 942.15 and 946.89 respectively.

Among the sub-indices, Banking gained 8.73 points than last week to close at 832.27 level.

Similarly Development (799.64) and Others (703.73) gained 6.75 and 10.57 points than last week respectively.

Hotels (1985.42) and HydroPower surged by double digit of 18.14 and 25.68 points respectively compared to last week.

Trading went up by 6.76 points to close at 200.39 level compared to last week.

On the contrary Finance (532.01) and Insurance (3952.96) plunged by 0.98 point and 48.92 points respectively.

Altogether 2,410,170 unit shares were traded through 5,956 transactions worth Rs 803.23 million this week.

The average turnover of this week stood at Rs 160.64 million.