KATHMANDU: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) went up by double digits on Monday, the second trading day of the week.

The benchmark index shot up by 15.14 points to settle at 1,270.86 points. Similarly, Sensitive Index, that assesses major companies, increased by 3.55 points to reach 276.28 points.

With the increasing trend, Nepse also witnessed the transaction surge significantly. A total of 5,518,636 units of shares of 183 companies were sold for Rs 1,705,060,664.

Meanwhile, the shares of two sub-groups among those 12 sub-groups went down while that of 10 sub-groups increased.