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DSEX index drops 3.22 points and Tk 86 crore traded in first hour
Dhaka, 2 Jan -The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country's main capital market, saw a downtrend in the first hour on Thursday.
The 3 indexes of the Dhaka stock market DSEX, DSES, and DS30 decreased in the first session of the second day of the New Year.
The main index DSEX decreased by 3.22 points to 5,214.93 points, the DSES Shariah index fell by 3.59 points to 1161.48 points, and the DS30 special blue-chip index down by 3.36 points to 1938.57 points during the first hour on Thursday.
On the day, the trading record in the DSE shows that shares and units of 4.38 crore were exchanged through 25160 transactions. In the first hour, the market witnessed huge selling pressure, and shares and mutual funds worth Tk 86.5 crore were traded.
During this time, a total of 347 companies participated in trading. Among these, prices of 114 companies increased, 141 companies decreased and 92 companies remained unchanged at the DSE.