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Stocks fall as 11-day Eid holiday begins tomorrow

Star Business Report
Stocks fell 1.68 percent yesterday as investors sold shares and mutual fund units in loan portfolios to avoid interests in the 11-day Eid holiday beginning from tomorrow.
The investors do not want to pay extra interests keeping shares in loan portfolios, said Mohammed Rahmat Pasha, managing director of BRACEPL, a leading stockbrokerage.
Merchant banks and stockbrokers take interest of loan, which is given to investors through loan portfolio.
DSEX, the benchmark general of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, closed below 3,800 points after four and a half months due to investors' panic sales. It closed the day at 3,792.35 points, after falling 64.89 points.
Investors went for panic sales ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha, commented IDLC Investments in its analysis.
Meanwhile, market sentiment continued to dwindle in line with investors' shaky confidence, the investment banker said.
Sceptical investors want to see how political gridlock will be resolved and how things unfold in the coming days, said LankaBangla Securities in its analysis.
Turnover, the most
important indicator of the market, advanced 13.66 percent toTk 265 crore from the previous day.
Of the 285 issues that traded on the DSE floor, 45 advanced, 221 declined and 19 remained unchanged.
A total of 0.80 lakh trades were executed with 6.84 crore shares and mutual fund units changing hands on the Dhaka bourse.
Most major sectors ended the day in the red: non-bank financial institutions 3.58 percent, telecoms 3.51 percent, food 2.91 percent and life insurance 2.64 percent.
Bangladesh Building System featured in the most traded stocks chart with 55 lakh shares worth Tk 22.81 crore changing hands. The company also was the biggest gainer of the day, as it posted a 372 percent gain in its debut day.
Meghna Condense Milk was the worst loser, plunging by 10 percent. The Chittagong Stock Exchange also declined on the day with its selective category index, CSCX, dropping 121 points to close at7,422 points.
Losers beat gainers 172 to 20, with 18 issues unchanged on the port city bourse that traded 79 lakh shares and mutual fund units with a turnoverofTk29.51 crore.