Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country's main capital market, saw a downtrend in the first 2:30 hours on Wednesday.
Trading record in the DSE shows that shares and units of 6.83 crore were exchanged through 69600 transactions. In this time shares and mutual funds worth Tk 201.7 crore were traded.
A total of 393 companies participated in trading. Among these, prices of 139 companies increased,
175 companies decreased and 79 companies remained unchanged at the DSE.
The main index DSEX decreased by 8.59 points to 5,215.99 points, the DSES Shariah index decreased by 1.48 points to 1165.26 points and the DS30 special blue chip rose by 0.87 points to 1930.37 points during the first 2:30 hours on Wednesday.