KATHMANDU, July 26: The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) continued to rally in a bull trend last week, by adding 112.01 points in its index.
Since the past two weeks after Nepal Rastra Bank unveiled its Monetary Policy 2025/26, the market has started to move upward backed by a notable amount of transaction volume. In the previous week, the market jumped 138.83 points.
The secondary market opened at 2,870.63 points on Sunday and closed at 2,982.64 points on Thursday. During the period, the market went as high as 2,992.26 points and plunged as low as 2,856.88 points, registering the market volatility of 135.38 points. Overall, the market gained 3.90 percent during the review period.
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On Sunday, the market opened at a positive note by recording the 11-month high transaction amount of Rs 21.46 billion, despite adding up a nominal of 0.32 points. On Monday the market soared 21.76 points, followed by a whopping gain of 80.97 points on Tuesday. On the consecutive two days, the market inched up 5.17 points and 3.76 points, respectively.
All the 13 trading groups had their market indices inclined up. The ‘others’ index surged by the largest of 10.19 percent, followed by life insurance with 5.08 percent and microfinance with 5.04 percent.
Among individual companies, Sanvi Energy Limited gained the highest of 60.97 percent, whereas Corporate Development Bank lost the highest of 15.31 percent. Share transactions of Nepal Reinsurance Company Limited stood at Rs 3.49 billion, the largest of all.
The total turnover amount inclined by 60.88 percent to Rs 95.94 billion. The average daily turnover also inclined to Rs 19.18 billion from Rs 11.92 billion.
Along with the NEPSE index, the market capitalization also increased to Rs 4.977 trillion from Rs 4.783 trillion, which secured capital gains of Rs 194 billion for the share investors in their investment portfolio. The share investors earned Rs 459 billion from the share market in the past three weeks.
