NEPSE gained 7.9 points

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) gained 7.90 points to close at 716.01 points this week. In the opening day, the index recorded 708.11 points.
Similarly, NEPSE, the sole secondary share market increased the weekly transaction amount to Rs. 470.02 million from Rs. 407.90 million, a 15.91 per cent up compared to the previous week’s transaction.
This week, NEPSE traded 711,600 shares of 82 companies in 4,716 transactions at a cost of Rs. 382.3 million. Last week, 754,100 shares were trade in 4,303 transactions, according to the NEPSE.
Of the total shares traded, Group-A companies contributed Rs. 268.8 million to the total transaction, which alone stood for 56.86 per cent.
This week, hotel groups, hydropower companies, insurance companies, finance companies and business group’s indices saw negative transaction while the manufacturing and others sub-indices registered saw no transaction.
Of the total sub-group indices, commercial bank groups added 14.51 points and climbed to 752.33 points and the development bank groups gained 2.66 points and climbed to 748.48 points.
Of the negative group sub-indices, the hotel groups lost 2.50 points and slipped to 363.95 points, the hydropower companies lost 2.88 points and slipped to 977.19 points and the business groups shed 10.80 points and dropped to 290.35 points in the opening index this week.
Likewise, the insurance companies slipped to 651.31 points losing 0.58 points and the finance company groups lost 2.18 points and slipped to 692.57 points.
This week, manufacturing companies and others groups’ sub-indices remained unaffected at 434.32 and 669.69 points respectively.
The sensitive index gained 2.27 points and went up to 190.46 points and the float index added 0.85 points and climbed to 69.16 points in the closing day.
This week, the Standard Charted Bank (with Rs. 40.67 million transaction amount), the National Hydro Power Company (with 99,000 shares brought and sold) and the Citizens Bank International (with 882 transactions) stood at the top in the respective categories.
Following the Standard Chartered Bank, the Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) with Rs. 39.01 million, Citizens Bank International with Rs. 38.75 million, Nepal Bangladesh Bank with Rs. 31.36 million and Kumari Bank with Rs. 30.51 million were the top five banks in terms of weekly transaction amount.