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Stocks extend losses

Star Business Report
Stocks suffered for the fourth day yesterday with the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange hitting the year's low as investors sold off scrips to book profits.
DSEX, the benchmark index of the premier bourse, declined 24.87 points or 0.54 percent, finishing the
day at 4,511.96 points.
Gloom pervaded the market as the DSEX touched this years' low, IDLC Investments said in its regular analysis.
Due to a persistently slow market, and in the absence of long-term optimism, many investors sold off shares, the merchant bank said.
The market marked the fourth day of losses backed up by heavy sell-offs
in large-cap stocks such as Square Pharma, Beximco Pharma and Lafarge Surma Cement, LankaBangla Securities said.
Turnover, another important indicator of the market, rose 9.1 percent to Tk 462.92 crore, with 13.04 crore shares and mutual fund units changing hands on the DSE.
Of traded issues, 97 advanced and 173 declined with 48 securities closing unchanged on the premier bourse.
LankaBangla Finance dominated the turnover chart with 94.83 lakh shares worth Tk 38.05 crore changing hands, followed by Orion Pharma, Ifad Autos, Singer Bangladesh, and BSRM.
Among the major sectors, cement stocks declined 2.66 percent in market capitalisation followed by the food and allied sector which fell 0.52 percent, nonbank financial institutions 0.5 percent and banks 0.43 percent.
Conversely, only the engineering sector increased by 0.21 percent.
Wata Chemicals was the day's best performer with 9.96 percent in gains, while RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) was the worst loser, shedding 6.18 percent.
Chittagong stocks fell yesterday with the bourse's benchmark index, CSCX, declining 45.39 points or 0.53 percent to finish the day at 8,458.4 points.
Losers beat gainers as 152 declined and 61 advanced, while 27 finished unchanged on the Chittagong Stock Exchange.
The port city bourse traded 1.47 crore shares and mutual fund units worth Tk 51.03 crore in turnover.