Kathmandu : The Nepal Stock Exchange index has increased 7.47 points to close at 1,403.86 points. Likewise, the sensitive index has grown by 1.47 points to stand at 294.24 points.

Over 5.3 million shares of 190 companies were traded at Rs 1.29 billion today. Out of 12 subgroups, three suffered a downturn. The hydropower sector decreased by 3.55 points, financial by 0.84 and collective investment fund by 0.06 points.

However, the banking sector increased by 7.05 points, trade 9.44, hotel 33.77, development bank 6.24, non-life insurance 46.71, production 8.15, others 3.82, micro finance 15.73 and life insurance by 58.78 points.

NepalBahas Reporter

NepalBahas is an online news portal run & managed by Sadawahar Media House Pvt. Ltd. A Nepali Version of this site is also in operation viz. www.nepalbahas.com. NepalBahas publishes political & economic centric news on a daily basis. We strongly believe that politics cannot exist without any economic agenda and vice-versa. News related to politics, banking, insurance, business, tourism, exposing corruption, employment related, national security, crime, sports, agriculture, health, education, entertainment, science and technology is our forte.