The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country's main capital market, saw an upward trend of trading in the first hour on Wednesday.
The 3 indexes of the Dhaka stock market DSEX, DSES and DS30 increased in the first session of the 4th working day of the week.
The main index DSEX increased by 5.98 points to 5,196.75 points, the DSES Shariah index up by 1.13 points to 1160.03 points, and the DS30 special blue-chip index increased by 0.99 points to 1923.74 points during the first hour on Wednesday.
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On the day, the trading record in the DSE shows that shares and units of 4.79 crore were exchanged through 33539 transactions. In the first hour, the market witnessed huge selling pressure, and shares and mutual funds worth Tk 95.5 crore were traded.
During this time, a total of 365 companies participated in trading. Among these, prices of 184 companies increased, 106 companies decreased and 75 companies remained unchanged at the DSE.