On Thursday (March 20), the country's main stock markets, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE), are witnessing an upward trend in the indexes as trading continues.
According to sources from DSE and CSE, at half an hour after the market opened on Thursday, i.e., at 10:30 AM, the DSE general index (DSEX) had risen by 12 points compared to the previous day, standing at 5,220 points. The DSE Shariah index increased by 2 points, and the DSE-30 index gained 6 points, reaching 1,160 and 1,887 points, respectively. During this time, shares and mutual fund units worth 96.42 crore taka were traded.
By 10:30 AM on Thursday, among the companies involved in trading, 207 had seen their prices rise, 66 saw a decrease, and 42 companies' shares remained unchanged.
The top 10 companies with the highest trading volume until 10:30 AM on Thursday included Shinepukur Ceramics, Akme Limited, S. Alam Steel, Deshbandhu Polymer, Fine Foods, Intraco, Prime First Mutual Fund, BD Thai, Alhaj Textile, and Alif Industries.
Earlier, in the first five minutes of trading today, the DSEX index had increased by 7 points. By 10:10 AM, it had gained another 3 points. Subsequently, the index continued to show an upward movement. By 10:20 AM, the DSEX index had risen by 13 points compared to the previous day's closing, reaching 5,221 points.
Meanwhile, at 10:30 AM, the CASPI index of the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) had increased by 1 point, reaching 14,563 points. The upward trend in the index continued thereafter.
Until 10:30 AM, trading on CSE had amounted to 24 lakh taka worth of shares and mutual fund units. During this time, prices of 14 companies' shares had risen, 6 had decreased, and 2 remained unchanged.
