KATHMANDU: Lately, commercial banks have started increasing credit lending Banks have increased credit lending to Rs 25 billion daily Banks had more liquidity as businesses could not grow due to the impact of the coronavirus Credit lending has increased to Rs 16 billion after November 20 Banks and financial institutions, which have been suffering from high liquidity in recent times, are now expanding their credit lending, which suggests that the economy is returning to normalcy Credit lending has also been on the rise since the business, which came to a standstill due to COVID-19 started operating Another major reason for the [...]

KATHMANDU: The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index increased by 335 points on Tuesday to reach 2,00040 points This is the highest point the stock market has achieved so far In the pre-opening session, the market had increased by 12 points but decreased by 30 points in 15 minutes of trading After that, the market increased again by 25 points The NEPSE index fell but increased again by three points Banking, development banks, and hotel sub-indices declined by double-digits while the manufacturing sub-index declined by 107 points The highest increase of 216 points was in the life insurance sub-index while the other sub-index listed in the telecom sector also saw an increase of 107 [...]