KATHMANDU: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) has increased by 20.75 points to reach at 1,505 in the first one hour on Wednesday.
The benchmark index witnessed the transaction of over 1 billion rupees during the period.
As many as 2,179,000 units of shares from 173 companies were sold for Rs 1.06 billion in the first one hour of the transaction.
Seven hydro power companies are among the 10 companies that topped the tally with highest increment in the share value.
Nepal Reinsurance Company’s share value increased by 9.92 percent while that of NRN Infrastructure’s soared by 9.89 percent. Similarly, the share value of Arun-Kabeli increased by 9.35 percent and that of Barun Hydropower’s increased by 9.28 percent.
All the indexes of 12 sub-groups are in green zone. Of them, the index of hydropower sub-group has gone up by 2.22 percent.
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