Of the companies that traded on Monday, 75 increased their share prices, 178 decreased their share prices, and 7 remained stable.
What you should know
The NEPSE index, a measure of stock trading, closed down 5.54 points on Monday.
Last Thursday, the NEPSE closed at 2,640.54 points after rising by 4.59 points. But that increase did not last until Monday. The stock market was closed on Sunday as it was a public holiday. The market that opened on Monday fell by 5.5 points. After a decrease of 0.20 percent compared to the previous day, the overall NEPSE fell to 2,635 points.
Of the companies that traded on Monday, the share prices of 75 companies increased, the prices of 178 companies decreased and the prices of 7 companies remained stable. The overall NEPSE fell by 5.5 points because the number of companies that decreased their share prices on this day was more than the number that increased.
On that day, 12 million 9,744 shares were bought and sold in a total of 78,808 share transactions. Shares worth 6.47 billion 26 million rupees were traded in those transactions. The transaction amount increased compared to the previous day. Last Thursday, the stock market traded 4.90 billion 80 million rupees.
Of the 13 subgroups that traded on the day, the indices of development banks, hotels and tourism, manufacturing and processing, and mutual funds remained generally positive. The overall NEPSE closed lower after the indices of the remaining nine subgroups declined.
