The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), witness a fall in indices and transactions in the last week, which started with a big fall.

The major indices fell on two of the four working days of the week. However, the capital market rose by more than Tk 2.5 trillion this week due to the opening of government securities trading.

According to the sources from DSE, the market capital on the first working day of this week was 521 thousand 676 crores 45 lakh 63 thousand takas. At the end of the week, its amount stood at 7 lakh 73 thousand 939 crores, as it counts the market capital of the main stock market has increased by 2 lakh 52 thousand 263 crores 12 lakh 45 thousand takas in the span of a week.

Despite the increase in market capital due to government securities, the number of shares traded in terms of DSE fell by 8.44pc. Shares and units worth Tk 4,832,92,25,429 were traded in the outgoing week in DSE. 5 thousand 278 crores 17 lakh 80 thousand 498 takas was traded in the previous week. During the week, the transaction dropped by 445 crores 25 lakhs 55 thousand 69 rupees.

In the last four working days of the week, the main index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange ‘DSEX’ has dropped by 75.26 points. Also, the Shariah index ‘DSES’ fell by 23.78 points and the index of selected companies ‘DS30’ by 53.51 points.

A total of 396 shares and units of companies were traded on DSE during the week ended. Among them, the share prices of 166 companies remained unchanged. Shares of 101 companies rose, while shares of 118 companies fell.