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Stocks jump for second day

Star Business Report
Amid technical glitch for one hour, Dhaka stock market jumped yesterday for a second consecutive day due mainly to buying spree, especially from die institutional investors.
The trading on the Dhaka Stock Exchange, however, continued to 3:00prn instead of as usual 2:00pm to make up for die lost hour.
The benchmark index, DSE General Index, shot up 85.87 points, or 3.27 percent, to 2706.61 points, while the DSE All Share Price Index went up 67.61 points, or 2.99 percent, to 2321.94 points.
Market operators said during the last couple of days the institution investors, who are the major players in the market and who remained inactive during the continuous slump, were very active.
On Wednesday institutional investors' participation in the total trade was 58 percent and the participation was more
than60 percent yesterday.
Apart from this, diey said, the capital market regulator's series of meetings with the leading merchant banks and brokerage houses that began Wednesday also cast a positive impact on the market
Ihe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also yesterday separately sat with the managing directors of two merchant banks and one brokerage house - Shahjalal Bank, Standard Bank and Union Capital.
Earlier on Wednesday, the SEC had separate meetings with the managing directors of three merchant banks and one brokerage house, namely, /\B Bank, Prime Bank, NCC Bank and Multi Securities.
At these meetings, the SEC discussed how confidence could be built up and the liquidity be increased in the market and problems faced by the merchant banks and brokerage houses be resolved.
of the securities were traded
up on the premier bourse yesterday. Of t he 227 issues traded, 188 advanced, 27 declined and 12 remained unchanged. A total ot 1,44,15,305 shares worth Tk 259.84 crore changed hands on the DSE.
Total market capitalisation also increased to Tk 94,723.6 crore from the previous day's Tk 92,553.95 crore.
Yesterday's top ten turnover leaders were Bcximco Pharma, Uttara Bank, Titas Gas, Lanka Bangla Finance, AB Bank, BRAC Bank, Keya Cosmetics, Beximco Limited, National Bank and Square Textiles.
Like the DSE, Chittagong stocks also jumped yesterday. The CSE Selective Categories Index went up 2.84 percent to 5503.88 points, while the CSE All Share Price Index shot up 2.69 percent to 8453.67 points.
A total of 28,16,961 shares worth Tk 39.85 crore changed hands on the port city bourse. Of the 131 issues traded, 118 advanced and 13 declined.