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Stocks' gaining streak continues for fifth day

Star Business Report
Stocks gained for the fifth straight day yesterday despite the countrywide shutdown enforced by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on the back of investors' buying spree.
DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose 11.28 points, or 0.22 percent, to close at 4,924.52 points, the highest in the last eight months.
"Despite the nationwide strike for three consecutive working days, equity market continued to advance amid heightened turnover," IDLC Investments said in its regular market analysis.
Participation was vibrant, with turnover crossing Tk 950 crore for the fourth consecutive trading sessions. The day's total turnover stood at Tk 992 crore, up 1.15 percent from the previous session.
Investors continued to favour pharmaceutical stocks, which captured the highest trading value, followed by engineering and fuel and power, IDLC added.
LankaBangla Securities said yesterday can be viewed as "a day of consolidation", as stocks fluctuated throughout the day to end the session on a mixed note.
Gainers outnumbered the losers, as of the 303 issues the traded on the DSE floor, 141 advanced, 135 declined and 27 remained unchanged.
Among the major sectors, only food and allied posted a loss of 2.43 percent.
The two largest cap sectors, telecoms and banks, posted the highest gains of 2.02 percent and 2.32 percent respectively. Fuel and power gained 0.34 percent, pharma 0.11 percent and non-bank financial institutions 0.13 percent.
RSRM Steels, which made its trading debut, was the day's most traded stock with 99.18 lakh of its shares worth Tk 75.41 crore changing hands.
At the end of the day, RSRM Steels shares gained 93.25 percent from their offer price of Tk 40. It was followed by Grameenphone, Beximco, MJL Bangladesh and Beximco Pharma.
Safko Spinning Mills, on the other
hand, was the day's biggest loser, posting a loss of 7.86 percent. The port city bourse, Chittagong Stock Exchange, also closed the day on a positive note, with its selective categories index, CSCX, recording a gain of 62 points to close at 9,279.89.
Gainers beat the losers by 117 to 102, with 18 issues remaining unchanged at the port city bourse that traded 1.9 crore shares and mutual fund units with a turnover ofTk 77 crore.