Bourses end flat

Country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), ended in flat note as the cautious investors sold shares to bag some profits that observed recent price upsurge.

The broad index, DSEX closed at 4722.37 points on Tuesday with a marginal gain of 0.35 points.

Besides, the two selective indices, Blue Chip index, DSE30 and the Shariah index, DSES also went up by 9.07 points and 1.66 points to settle at 1661.22 points and 1086.38 points respectively.

On the DSE trading floor, a total number of 115,903 trades were executed in today’s trading session with a trading volume of 128.43 million securities.

Losers took a strong lead over the gainers as out of 334 issues traded, 124 securities gained price while 174 declined and 36 remained unchanged.

The top 10 gainers were Beacon Pharma, Mozaffar Hossain Steel Mill, Sea Pearl Resort, Active fine, Prime Finance Mutual Fund, Ambee Pharma, Standard Ceramics, CAPM BDBL Mutual Fund, AFC Agro and Premier Cement.

Grameenphone topped the turnover chart followed by National Tubes, Standard Ceramics, Sonarbangla Insurance, Stylecraft, Monno Jute Stafflers, BSCCL, Nitol Insurance, Brac Bank and Active Fine.

The top 10 losers were Pacific Denims, Saif Power, Tosrifa Industries, Paramount Textile, ICB, Intraco Refueling, Desh Garments, Titas Gas, MI Cement and BD Lamps.

On the other hand, the port city bourse, Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also closed at green from the bearish streak of the previous day.

CSCX and CASPI went up by 6.7 points and 9.18 points to stand at 8716.25 points and 14334.37 points respectively.

At CSE, a total of 6,769,510 shares and mutual fund of 240 companies were traded, of which 83 issues advanced while 123 declined and 33 issues remained unchanged.