Background

Stocks down at opening

The prices of the most shares on the country's premier bourse dipped in early trading on Sunday after a three-day break. 21st February (Thursday) was a government holiday for International Mother Language day while Friday and Saturday were weekends.

DGEN, the benchmark General Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed 44 points to reach 4,210 points at 10:45am when this report was filed. Of the issues traded, 83 declined, 26 advanced and 16 remained unchanged.

A total of 6,172 trades were executed with Tk 22.59 crore changing hands.
On Wednesday, trading at the country's premier bourse ended at 4,254 points decreasing 46 points.







Source: The Daily Star

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