South Asian Stock Markets fell last week. Among them, the biggest fall was in the stock markets of India and Pakistan.
A review of South Asian markets shows that India’s Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) index BSE Sensex fell below 60,000 points in a week. The index lost 1,636 points during the week. Also, the Nifty-50 index of the country’s National Stock Exchange fell by 472 points last week. At the end of the week, the index stood at 17,806 points.
Pakistan Stock Exchange Index ‘KSE 100’ lost 1,632 points last week. After a week of decline, the index settled at 39,669 points.
The Sri Lankan stock market also suffered a big fall last week. The Colombo Stock Exchange index ‘ASPI’ fell by 173 points in a week. Also, Bhutan’s stock market index ‘BSI’ lost 12 points and Nepal’s ‘NEPSE’ lost 15 points last week.
Meanwhile, all the indices of the stock market of Bangladesh fell last week. Dhaka Stock Exchange has seen decline on four out of five working days of the week. The stock market of Bangladesh ended with a fall in the outgoing week. Dhaka Stock Exchange’s main index ‘DSE X’ lost 54.61 points in five working days. During the week, the trade dropped by 774 crore 44 lakh 30 thousand taka. Also, DSE’s market capitalization fell by Tk 2,667 crore in one week.
