The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Bangladesh's main capital market, experienced a downtrend in the first 90 minutes of trading on Sunday.
Within the first 1:30 hours of the session, shares and mutual fund units worth Tk 105.6 crore were exchanged through 42,107 transactions, according to DSE records. A total of 4.2 crore shares and units changed hands during this period.
A total of 385 companies participated in trading during the early session. Among them, prices of 60 companies advanced, prices of 265 companies declined, and prices of 60 companies remained unchanged.
The benchmark DSEX index dropped 29.64 points, settling at 5,167.18 points. The DSES Shariah index fell by 6.89 points to 1,157.07 points, while the DS30 blue-chip index slid by 8.55 points to 1,903.36 points during the same period.