Kathmandu. On the first trading day of the week, nepse’s growth, which rose by 51 points to 2922 points on Sunday, could not be sustained. Later, the NEPSE index rose by 0.32 points to 2,870.95 points. At the time of trading around 1 pm, the NEPSE index had reached around 2900. During the day, the Sensitive Index fell 2.46 points, the Float Index fell 0.44 points and the Sensitive Float Index fell 1.05 points.

Although the stock market has increased by a normal number, the transaction amount has increased high today. On the previous trading day, shares worth Rs 16.5 billion were traded in the market on Thursday, while the market traded at Rs 21.46 billion.

Out of the 13 sub-groups traded today, the index of five sub-groups has increased. The index of the remaining 8 sub-groups has decreased. Today, the index of other sub-groups has increased the most by 3.36 percent. On the other hand, the index of hotel and tourism, life insurance and non-life insurance sub-groups has increased by more than 1 percent. Today, the index of finance sub-group has fallen the most by 2.26 percent.

Shares of four companies traded at positive circuit levels on Sunday. Shares of Unnati Sahyog Laghubitta Financial Institution, Sanvi Energy, Trade Tower and Shiva Shree Hydropower were traded at positive circuit level today.

Today, Nepal Reinsurance Company is at the top position in terms of transaction amount. Shares worth Rs 985.5 million of the company were traded today. Similarly, shares worth More than Rs 640 million of Butwal Power Company were traded today, while Himalayan Re Insurance company’s transaction amount was more than Rs 565 million.