Stocks return to black after three days

All indices of the Dhaka and Chattogram bourses returned to the black yesterday, snapping a three-day losing streak.

The DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose 14 points, or 0.23 per cent, to close at 6,270.

The DS30, the blue-chip index, edged up 0.3 per cent to 2,232 while the DSES, the shariah-compliant index, increased 0.41 per cent to 1,371.

However, turnover, a key indicator of the market, dropped 7 per cent to Tk 435 crore. Of the securities, 56 advanced, 113 declined and 145 did not show any price movement.

Apex Spinning & Knitting Mills was the highest gainer with an increase of 9.2 per cent.

Bangladesh General Insurance Company incurred the sharpest loss by shedding more than 3.6 per cent.

Genex Infosys was the most-traded stock on the day with issues worth Tk 35 crore transacting.

The Caspi, the all-share price index of the Chittagong Stock Exchange, rose 20 points, or 0.10 per cent, to 18,498.

Of the issues, 35 rose, 35 retreated and 52 did not see any price swing.

Turnover of the port city bourse dropped 17 per cent to Tk 6.6 crore from the previous session's Tk 8 crore.