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the top gainers’ and losers’ lists comprised small cap stocks, it added.

Among the major sectors, food and allied, travel and leisure and pharmaceutical sectors experienced price appreciations while IT, life insurance and engineering sectors faced corrections, said UCB Stock Brokerage in its market commentary.

Tamijuddin Textile Mills Limited topped the gainers’ list, rising 10 per cent, followed by Deshbandhu Polymer Limited, Esquire Knit Composite Limited, CVO Petrochemical Refinery Limited and Alif Industries Limited.

Asian Tiger Sandhani Life Growth Fund shed the most, losing 9.99 per cent, followed by Meghna PET Industries Limited, Meghna Condensed Milk Industries Limited, GSP Finance Company (Bangladesh) Limited, and ADN Telecom Limited.

Stocks of Square Pharmaceuticals Limited were traded the most, worth Tk 98 crore, followed by British American Tobacco Bangladesh, Khulna Power Company Limited, Bangladesh Export Import Company (Beximco) Limited and Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited.

Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also rose yesterday. The CASPI, the general index of the port city bourse, edged up 181 points, or 0.87 per cent, to 20,979 points.

Among the 369 stocks to undergo trade, 135 rose, 199 fell and 35 remained unchanged.