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Stocks curve up fast

Star Business Report
Stocks gained yesterday with the highest turnover since January 4, as investors went for heavy buying of shares and mutual fund units.
The benchmark General Index, DGEN, the gauge of Dhaka Stock Exchange, finished the day at 4,863.49 points, after gaining 104.35 points or 2.19 percent, which was the highest in the last eight trading sessions.
"Recent improvements in market condition seem to heighten investor confidence as investors became more active in taking positions, while realizing some profits from the rally,” said IDLC Investments Ltd in its daily market analysis.
Ahmed Rashid, senior vice president of DSE, said the price to earnings (P/E) ratio of some companies is lucrative, while some of them are high.
Rashid advised investors to avoid those high P/E companies.
Smart investors must take into account companies' fundamentals and corporate declarations to make investment decisions, he said.
"After a long break the DSE enjoyed such a bullish movement in the prime index as retail investors were actively participating in trading," Green Delta LR Holdings said in its market commentary.
Turnover increased 56 percent to Tk 691 crore, compared to the previous day. A total of 1.65 lakh trades were executed with 13.76 crore shares and mutual fund units changing hands on the Dhaka bourse.
Fuel and Power dominated trading, while banks lagged slightly in turnover.
All major sectors closed green. Textile gained 4.97 percent, non-bank financial institutions 4.62 percent, fuel and power 3.26 percent and pharmaceuticals 2.88 percent.
Grameenphone, which represents the telecoms sector, gained 3 percent and Tk 25.86 crore worth of its shares were traded.
GP continued to attract investors' attention that helped achieve this outstanding performance for past couple of weeks, said Green Delta.
Beximco topped the turnover leader with 30.23 lakh shares worth Tk34.57 crore changing hands.
IDLC Finance Ltd was the biggest gainer of the day at it posted 9.75 percent gain. Green Delta Insurance was the worst loser, plunging by 17.95 percent.
The Chittagong Stock Exchange also gained yesterday due to buying pressure. The Selective Categories Index of CSE closed at 9,062.78 points, after gaining 197.88 points or 2.23 percent. The port-city bourse traded more than 1.44 crore shares and mutual units withTk64.24 in turnover.