The country’s both stock markets’ trading ended with the highest transaction on Thursday.

The index points of Dhaka stock exchange rose  by 7 points and Chittagong stock by 14 points—the highest in five and a half  months. 

 As a result, the stock market index rose on the four working days after Eid. Even before Eid, the five-day index traded in an upward trend. All in all, the capital market has risen for the last nine consecutive working days.

On Thursday, shares of Rahima Food, ITC, Kohinoor Chemical, Heidelberg Cement and Bashundhara Paper Mills have played a major role in the rise, along with the food, insurance and IT sectors. These five companies contributed about 35 percent to the increase in the share index.

According to DSE data, over 15.90 crore shares and units were traded in DSE today (Thursday). Over Tk 967.69 crore has been transacted in it while Tk765.33 crore was traded on Wednesday. The transaction has increased by more than Tk 200 crore compared to the previous day.

It was the highest transaction in the last 5 and a half months. Earlier on November 9, 2022, Tk1018.85 crore was transacted in the DSE.

On this day, the main index DSE increased by 7.70 points from the previous day to 6274 points. Among the other two indexes, DSE Shariah Index rose by 3.10 points to 1,362 points. However, the DSE-30 index fell by 4.64 points to 2088 points.

A total of 351 shares and units of companies were traded on DSE. Among them, the prices of 79 companies increased, 62 companies decreased and 210 companies' share and unit prices remained unchanged.

Shares of Genex Infosys were at the top of the transaction on DSE on Thursday. After that, shares of Unique Hotel were traded the most. The share of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation was in the third place. Then in the top 10 were shares of Eastern Housing, Bashundhara Paper Mills, Olympic Industries, Gemini Sea Food, Rupali Life Insurance, Apex Footwear and IT Consultants Limited respectively.

The overall index of the other stock market CSE CASPI increased by 14.93 points to 18466 points. Shares and units of 160 companies were traded on CSE. Among them, the prices increased for 44 companies, decreased for 45 companies and remained unchanged for 68 companies.

 At the end of the day, over 7.95 crore shares and units were traded in CSE. The previous day the transaction was 9.67 crore.