KATHMANDU, APRIL 20
The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index fell 13.17 points, or 0.46 percent, on Monday to close at 2,825.23 points, with the market ending broadly in the red across nearly all sectors.
The sensitive index, which tracks Class A stocks, declined 0.67 percent, while the float index, measuring actively traded shares, dropped 0.62 percent.
Of the 11 sectors, only Hotels and Tourism (up 1.01 percent) and Trading (up 0.50 percent) recorded gains. All remaining sectors closed in negative territory, though none registered a loss exceeding one percent.
Market activity was subdued, with daily turnover reaching Rs 5.43 billion from the exchange of 11,653,370 units of shares across 349 companies in 116,310 transactions. Total market capitalisation stood at Rs 4.818 trillion at close. Among individual scrips, 65 advanced, 197 declined and six remained unchanged.
In a regulatory development, two companies - Suryakunda Hydro Electric Limited (SKHEL) and Hotel Forest Inn Limited (HFIN) - triggered the upper circuit breaker at the new threshold of 15 percent, up from the previous limit of 10 percent, under recently revised NEPSE regulations.