KATHMANDU: Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has increased by 0.23 points on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week.

With today’s increment, the index has reached 3160.31 points.

A total of 30.61 million shares of 221 companies traded today resulting in a turnover of Rs 18.20 billion.

The Sensitive Index, which measures the trading volume of large companies, is also increased by 0.35 points and close by 593.28 points.

There was a positive circuit in the business of 12 companies today.

Investors in NIBL ​​Pragati Fund lost the most at 3.86 percent per share.

Shares of Api Power Company had the highest turnover of Rs 863.82 million today. Api Power was also at the forefront in terms of transactions.

The highest number of 1,341,240 shares of the company and the highest number of 10,325 shares of Union Life Insurance Company were bought and sold.

The indices of all subgroups except development bank, finance, hydropower, investment, production and processing, and microfinance have declined, according to Nepse.