KATHMANDU: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) has gone down in the first one hour on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week.

The benchmark index took a nosedive by 13.63 points to land at 2980.96 points during the period, the company said.

The company witnessed a transaction of 8,849,226 units of shares worth Rs 1,816,300,000 of 206 companies during the period.

Of the total companies involved, the share value of 36 companies has increased while that of 135 companies has gone down.

The share value of nine companies has remained stable.