The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country's main capital market, saw a mixed trend of trading in the first hour on Monday.
The 3 indexes of the Dhaka stock market DSEX, DSES went up, and DS30 decreased in the first session of the second day of the week.
The main index DSEX increased by 6.91 points to 5,172.08 points, the DSES Shariah index up by 2.73 points to 1150.85 points, and the DS30 special blue-chip index down by 0.34 points to 1919.27 points during the first hour on Monday.
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On the day, the trading record in the DSE shows that shares and units of 3.31 crore were exchanged through 27171 transactions. In the first hour, the market witnessed huge selling pressure, and shares and mutual funds worth Tk 81.5 crore were traded.
During this time, a total of 357 companies participated in trading. Among these, prices of 174 companies increased, 90 companies decreased and 93 companies remained unchanged at the DSE.