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Stocks end higher on Grameen debut

Star Business Report
Dhaka stocks closed higher yesterday amid downturn in turnover with Scheme hvo ot Grameen One mutual fund leading gains on its debut.
The Scheme Two of Grameen One mutual fund (Grameens2) grew over four times to I k 43 from its book value ofTk 10 each, powered by busing pressure.
The fund constituted 11 percent of the day's total turnover on the bourse, with 77 lakh shares changing hands out of its floated shares of 125,000,000.
Grameen 1 mutual fund however lost 1.54 percent toTk 95.90.
Heavy buying into the shares of Titas Gas, a market heavyweight, injected additional vigour into the market to help remain upbeat for a ninth day.
Banks continued their losing streak. Profit-taking led many of the previous-day gainers such as non-banking financial institutions and some pharmaceuticals issues --Beximco Pharmaceuticals and AC1-- to end lower.
The market opened higher in the initial hour of the beginning and fluctuated for the rest of trade hours.
Losers beat gainers 125 to 91. Some 12 issues remained unchanged.
The benchmark DSE General Index finished 10.61 points, or over 0.38 percent higher at 2,831.40. The DSE All Share Price Index increased 8.57 points, or 0.35 percent to 2,416 points. The blue-chip DSE-20 index however ended 18.80 points, or 0.76 percent lower at 2434.23.
Turnover on the bourse
dipped about 19 percent toTk 271.57 crore from Tk 335.14 crore.
Scheme I\vo of Grameen One ME ruled the market in turnover followed by Titas Gas, ACI, ICB 2nd NRB Ml- and Islam! Bank.
Titas continued its rally and added 0.88 percent toTk 428.
ACI slumped 0.87 percent to Tk 520.10 amid profit-taking. ICB 2nd NRB mutual fund added 1.67 percent to Tk 182.25. Islami Bank lost 1.66 percent toTk 7,440.25.
All the indices on the Chittagong Stock Exchange finished lower as investors cashed in on previous-day gains. 'Turnover also dropped to Tk 30.86 crore from Tk 45.21 crore.
Of the issues traded on the CSE, 47 gained, 80 lost and two closed stable.