The benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, DSEX, broke a week-long gaining streak and fell by 0.57 percent or 33 points to 5,749 yesterday.

Turnover also declined by Tk 160 crore to end the day atTk 1,005 crore.

It was a normal correction in stocks as DSE index was upward throughout the week, said a senior executive of a brokerage house.

Although, index lost points at the last session of the week but the turnover was buoyant due to active participation of investors, he said.

The large cap stocks which were in lead in the first four sessions saw major price correction, taking the market in red, said another senior executive of a merchant bank.

Thursday's trading session experienced significant fall in large cap stocks such as Grameenphone by 4.3 percent, Lafarge Surma Cement 1.8 percent and Islami Bank 2.1 percent.

While other large cap stocks, non-bank financial institutions, bank and cement gained 7.36 percent, 3.35 percent and 3.02 percent respectively.

Telecom was the only large cap sector that experienced a 1.24 percent fall.

The average daily turnover increased by 48.2 percent yesterday compared to the previous week.

The average trade volume increased by 59.8 percent and total number of trades increased by 281 percent yesterday compared to the previous week, where there were only two trading days because of Eid vacation.

Top gaining stocks were Fu-wang Foods, Rupali Bank and International Leasing and Finance in the last week. Conversely, top losing stocks were Beach Hatchery, Shinepukur Ceramics and Standard Insurance.

LankaBangla Finance topped the weekly turnover list followed by Regent Textile, Baraka Power, Fu-wang Foods, Keya Cosmetics and Doreen Power.