KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 4
The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) continued its decline on the second trading day of the week, with the index slipping by 3.42 points or 0.18%, settling at 1,847.81 points.
In contrast to the declining index, there was a slight positive shift in daily turnover, surpassing Rs 1 billion and reaching Rs 1.197 billion. This came from a total of 3,896,287 units of shares from 292 companies, exchanged through 43,428 transactions. The daily turnover on Sunday was only Rs 964 million.
Today, the total market capitalization had reached Rs 2.849 trillion.
Alongside the drop in the benchmark index, the sensitive index, evaluating the performance of 'A' class stocks, saw a decrease of 0.34%, equivalent to 1.22 points, closing at 353.21 points. Additionally, the float index, reflecting the performance of actively traded shares, experienced a decline of 0.19%, or 0.24 points, settling at 127.46 points.
In today's trading, all sub-indices were in the red, except for the Development Bank, Finance, life insurance, Microfinance, Mutual fund, and Non-life insurance indices.
Furthermore, in today's trading session, Sonapur Minerals and Oil Limited (SONA) continued to be the leading company in terms of turnover, volume, and transactions. It traded 248,193 units of its shares, amounting to Rs 74,631,723.40 in 7,085 transactions.
NRN Infrastructure and Development Limited (NRN) and Mountain Energy Nepal Limited (MEN) experienced significant losses in their share values, both seeing a decrease of 9.99 percent.
