Kathmandu, May 9: The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index, which fell continuously on the first day of the week, rose by double digits today. The NEPSE index increased by 10.66 points to 1,844.36 points.
In today’s business, 28,36,139 shares have been traded.
Sub-indicators of all groups have shown green. The sub-index of life insurance group increased by 75.01 points and the sub-index of hotel and tourism group increased by 65.84 points. Banking group increased by 3.58 points, development bank by 28.39 points, finance by 7.76 points, hydropower by 24.58 points and investment group by 0.49 points.
Similarly, manufacturing and processing increased by 58.59 points, microfinance by 10.98 points, mutual funds by 0.02 points, non-life insurance by 20.60 points, trade by 2.35 points and other groups by 3.37 points.
The share price of People Power Limited increased the most today by 6.47 percent, while the share price of Unique Nepal Microfinance decreased the most by 8.68 points.