KATHMANDU, JULY 13

Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index on Tuesday gained 16.34 points and closed at 2,871.03 points.

According to Nepse, sensitive index of big companies increased by 4.74 points and reached 539.51 points. Likewise, a total of 12.3 million and 48,389 units share of 223 companies were traded at Rs 5.54 billion and 6.3 million.

With the trading on Tuesday, the market capitalisation of the country reached more than 3993.75 million.

All 13 sub-categories except life insurance companies posted positive growth in prices. Nepse said that share price of life insurance companies decreased 66.19 points.

Nepal Bangladesh Bank Limited (NBB) has the highest individual scrip turnover of a little over Rs. 45.47 crores.