KATHMANDU, July 5: Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) last week escalated 108.22 points as investors were driven by an expectation that Nepal Rastra Bank could adopt flexible monetary policy for the upcoming Fiscal Year (2025/26).
The secondary market opened at 2,595.74 points on Sunday and closed at 2,703.96 points on Thursday. During the period, the market went as high as 2,716.93 points and plunged as low as 2,622.88 points, registering a market fluctuation of 94.05 points.
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With a notable rise in its index by 26.53 points on Sunday, the market opened for the week-day trading at a positive note, which was continued also for the remaining four days. On Monday, the market added 9.19 points followed by a double-digit growth of 31.44 points and 34.42 points, respectively, on the following two consecutive two days. On Thursday, the market gained 9.14 points to close for the week.
All the 13 trading groups had their market indices incline up. Life insurance index surged by the highest of 8.50 percent while the trading index with an increase of 0.83 percent was the lowest in the row.
Among individual companies, Rapti Hydro and General Construction gained the highest of 26.23 percent of its market price. The share price of Mid Solu Hydropower declined the largest of 5.69 percent.
The total turnover amount inclined by 13.73 percent to Rs 39.91 billion. The average daily turnover also inclined to Rs 7.99 billion from Rs 7.02 billion.
Along with the NEPSE index, the market capitalization also increased to Rs 4.505 trillion from Rs 4.324 trillion, which made the investors get capital gains of Rs 181 billion in their investment portfolio in the review period. The share investors witnessed a loss of Rs 54 billion in the previous week.
