Kathmandu, March 13

Nepal’s only share market, Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse), saw a significant increase in the Nepse index on Sunday, the first day of the transaction of this week.

As the market closed at 2,667.97 points, it recorded a jump of 101.07 points.

Likewise, the sensitive index, measuring the transactions of A-class companies, also went up by 16.37 points today.

As per the total amount of transactions, Sunday observed the transactions worth Rs 4.87 billion in total. Last week, the average per-day transaction was worth Rs 3 billion.

Today, nine million and 22,890 plots of shares of 228 companies were traded in 64,228 transactions.

Along with an increase in the Nepse index, of the companies, 209 saw an increase in the prices of their shares, 11 got declined and eight were static.