DHAKA: Country’s both bourses moved to the red zone on Wednesday (March 27) after a one-day break amid low confidence of investors and sustain of ongoing pessimism.

The capital bourse of the country opened on positive but the market failed to maintain the positive trend as the session progressed.

At the close of day’s trading, the key index of the country’s prime bourse went down by 27.58 points or 0.49 percent to reach 5,502. 

Two other indices also ended lower. The DSE Shariah Index saw loss of 4.59 point or 0.35 percent to close at 1,281.73.

The DS30 index, comprising blue chips, also shed over 11.32 points or 0.57 percent to finish at 1,968.74.

“Recent announcement of lowering the interest rate also failed to regain the investors' confidence,” EBL Securities in its daily market analysis.

Of the issues traded, 121 gained, 165 declined and 61 remained unchanged.

Shares worth Tk 3,534.07 million changed hands at the DSE on the fourth trading session of the week.

British American Tobacco Bangladesh Company Ltd topped the turnover leaders with 58k shares worth Tk 267 million traded.

The CSE overall share index, CASPI also lost 38.03 points or 0.22 percent to reach 16,858 points at the close today. 

Of the 218 issues traded, 82 advanced, 104 suffered loss and 32 remained unchanged. 
 
The value of the traded issues was Tk 237.37 million.

BDST: 1953 HRS, Mar 27, 2019
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