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Turnover on DSE dips to six-month low

Star Business Report
Turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) yesterday dipped to Tk 120 crore, a six-month low, as investors lost confidence in stocks due to gloomy market data.
Turnover on the premier bourse declined 21.25 percent, compared to the previous day.
DGEN, the benchmark general index of DSE, finished the day at 4,139.07 points, after falling 51.92 points or 1.24 percent.
“New Year looks like a sudden turnover crunch," IDLC Investments said in marketcomments.
Logically, with no major change in overall fundamental scenario within a span of only three sessions, such sudden dry market puzzled investors' confidence once again, the merchant bank said.
In the gloomy market scenario, investors preferred to keep watching the trading screen instead of investing, it added.
A total of 0.45 lakh trades were executed with 3.6 crore shares and mutual fund units changing hands on the Dhaka bourse.
“Most of the sectors saw their vol-
ume dip significantly as the investors remained reluctant from trading,” LankaBangla Securities said in a report.
Among the major sectors, power lost 1.75 percent, followed by non-bank financial institutions 1.61 percent and telecoms 1.20 percent.
Banks and pharma went down 1.17 percent and 0.60 percent.
United Airways featured in the most traded stocks chart with 37.32 lakh shares worthTk 7.71 changed hands.
Beximco and Unique Hotel and Resorts were the next popular stocks of the day.
Of the 261 issues that traded on the DSE, 40 advanced, 192 declined and 29 remained unchanged.
Bangladesh Lamps was the biggest gainer of the day, as it gained 6.48 percent, while Midas Financing was the worst loser, plunging by 9.96 percent.
CSCX, the selective categories index of Chittagong Stock Exchange, closed the day at 8,050.90 points, after falling 81.1 points or 0.99 percent.
Losers beat gainers 135 to 21 with nine issues remaining unchanged on the port city bourse that traded more than 46.95 lakh shares and mutual fund units with Tk 15.89 crore in turnover.