DSE surpasses 5000-mark

Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the main index of the country's prime bourse, crossed the 5,000-mark after 12 months on Thursday as investors kept running their buying appetite riding on various regulatory moves.

DSE 's large index, DSEX settled on Thursday, the last working day of the week, at 5011.29 points, with a big gain of 39.60 points or 0.79 percent.

In addition, DSES has increased by 13.33 points and 12.08 points to settle at 1740.23 points and 1158.52 points respectively, with two different indices, the Blue Chip index, the DSE30 and the Shariah index. 

A total of 195,546 trades were conducted on the DSE trading floor in today's trading session, with a trading volume of 357.11 million securities.

In the previous session, DSE 's turnover, a key market measure, stood at Taka 10.24 billion from Taka 10.77 billion.

Gainers took the lead over losers as out of 356 issues exchanged, 190securities gained prices while 117 dropped and 49 remained unchanged.

DSE 's market-cap grew to Taka 3,789 billion, which was Taka 3,763 billion at the previous session.

Hakkani Pulp, Orion Infusion, Information Services Network, Provati Insurance, Beacon Pharma, ADN Telecom, National Polymer, BD Finance, Agrani Insurance and Miracle Industries were the top ten gainers.

Beximco Pharma finished with Beximco Limited, Brac Bank, Orion Pharma, Orion Infusion, Delta Brac Accommodation, Fu-Wang Food, Grameenphone, United Power and Square Pharma.

Pragati Life Insurance, LR Global Mutual Fund-1, Prime Insurance, United Insurance, the NLI First Mutual Fund, Republic Insurance, Asia Insurance, Paramount Insurance, Global Insurance and Daffodil Insurance were the top ten losers.

On the other hand, the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) port city stock exchange also rebounded and closed green trading after a day break.

CSCX and CASPI increased at 8602.59 points and 14295.09 points respectively by 53.39 points and 100.24 points.