Stocks showed a mixed trend in the country’s two bourses in the first hour of trading on Sunday, the first working day after a three-day holiday, with indices falling in Dhaka and rising in Chattogram.
At the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the benchmark DSEX index shed 12 points in early trading.
The other two indices also declined, with the Shariah-based DSES losing 1 point and the blue-chip DS30 dropping 11 points.
Most listed companies saw price declines, as 167 issues lost value compared to 135 gainers, while 82 remained unchanged.
Turnover on the DSE crossed Tk 150 crore within the first hour.
Meanwhile, trading at the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed a positive trend, with its overall CASPI index rising by 12 points.
Gainers outnumbered losers at the CSE, where 40 issues advanced, 11 declined and 7 remained unchanged.
The port city bourse recorded transactions worth over Tk 1.4 crore in the first hour of trading.