KATHMANDU: The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index fell by 45.42 points to close at 2,060.73 points on Tuesday.
The market opened for trading at 2,109.79 points. The benchmark index started a downward journey from the very beginning of trading and eventually closed 2.16 percent lower than previous day.
All the trading groups ended the day in red with the maximum loss coming from the ‘Others’ sub-index which was down by 4.84 percent. Finance, Development Bank and Trading groups also went down by 3.37, 3.28 and 3.18 percent, respectively.
Citizen Investment Trust was the most traded stock of the day as shares worth Rs 151.09 million were traded in the bourse on Tuesday. Next on the list were Shivam Cement and Himalayan Distillery Ltd with turnovers of Rs 130.87 million and Rs 107.85 million, respectively.
A total of 6.64 million units of shares of 222 companies worth Rs 2.81 billion were traded in the bourse on the day through 46,289 transactions.
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