Weekly Wrap-up (Review Period: March 9 to March 12, 2015)

ShareSansar, March 13:

Nawin Sah

The Benchmark Index of Nepal Stock Exchange Limited (NEPSE) plunged 5.05 points or 0.51 percent to close at 978.44 level than the last week closing of 983.49 mark index.

NEPSE Sensitive dipped 0.54 point to stand at 208.08 whereas Float surged by 0.11 point to close at 68.78 level respectively than last week.

The local bourse closed at 988.77 level on Monday (the 1st trading day of this week) with surge of 5.28 points.

However the remaining days remained different for NEPSE as it plunged by 4.34 points, 0.37 points and 5.62 points to close at 984.43, 984.06 and 978.44 levels respectively.

Among the sub-indices, Banking dropped by 4.07 points or 0.48 percent to close at 852.61 level than last week.

Development (829.89) and Finance (541.73) gained 4.24 points and 1.63 points respectively compared to last week.

HydroPower (2235.17) and Hotels (47.43) dipped 9.82 points and 47.43 points respectively.

Insurance dropped by triple digit of 112.3 points to close at 4212.15 level.

Manufacturing (1446.31) and Others (755.42) gained 5.13 and 8.23 points respectively than last week.

Altogether 2,810,959 unit shares were traded this week through 7,578 transactions worth Rs 1,056.78 million.

The average turnover of this week stood at Rs 264.19 million.