KATHMANDU: The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index has seen a sharp decline. Today, the index fell by 51.37 points to 2,630.91. This is a decline of 1.91 percent.

Today, 12,745,777 shares of 304 companies were bought and sold 67,648 times. Today, a transaction worth Rs. 5,935,648 million was made on NEPSE.

Today, all the sub-indices of all the groups were in the red. The finance group fell the most by 4.41 percent and the trade group by 3.55 percent. Banking decreased by 1.49 percent, development bank by 2.03 percent, hotel and tourism by 2.31 percent, hydropower by 2.36 percent, investment by 1.56 percent and life insurance by 1.82 percent.

Similarly, manufacturing and processing decreased by 1.16 percent, microfinance by 1.86 percent, mutual funds by 0.91 percent, non-life insurance by 1.42 percent and other groups by 1.45 percent. While the share prices of 227 companies decreased in today’s trading, the share prices of only 15 companies increased. The share price of Kutheli Bukhari Small Hydropower Limited has entered a positive circuit.

Among the biggest losers, the share price of Janaki Finance Company Limited has decreased by 9.58 percent. Based on the transaction amount, the largest number of shares worth Rs 264.59 million, 330 thousand were bought and sold today.

Similarly, based on the number of shares traded, the promoter shares of Hydroelectricity Investment and Development Company Limited were bought and sold by 614 thousand 96 units.