Weekly Wrap-Up (Review Period August 9 to 13 – 2015)

ShareSansar, August 14:

The benchmark index of Nepal Stock Exchange Limited (NEPSE) gained huge 48.06 points or 4.62 percent to close at 1088.42 level than last week closing of 1040.36.

NEPSE index has broken the previous year high of 1083.55 level and is at 7 years high of 1088.42 level.

The local bourse gained in double digits of 23.05 and 17.95 points on Sunday and Monday to close at 1063.41 and 1081.36 level respectively.

However the benchmark index witnessed plunge of 3.58 and 0.59 points on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively and then finally surged 11.23 points to close at 1088.42 level.

The total turnover of this week amounted Rs 317.75 crore whereas the average turnover of this week was Rs 63.55 crore.

Altogether more than 55 lakh unit shares were traded this week through 21,516 transactions.

Among the sub-indices, Insurance gained in triple digits of 130.46 points to close at 4609.67 level than last week.

Banking and Manufacturing sectors went up by 72.43 and 91.63 points to close at 1021.34 and 1802.76 level respectively compared to last week.

Development, Others and Hotels sub-indices gained meager 2.85 points, 7.04 points and 11.59 points respectively than last week.

Maximum trading were done of commercial bank’s shares like NICA, SBI, EBL, SCB and HBL this week.