The Dhaka bourse closed the week's first session marginally higher extending the gaining streak for the second consecutive session, on marginal price appreciations experienced by major sectors.
On the day, the travel & leisure sector saw the highest appreciation. The other sectors that also watched stocks rising include IT, Cement, life insurance, food & allied and pharmaceuticals & chemicals.
These sectors mainly helped the broad index to close the day in the positive territory.
The market opened the session positively and soon the DSE broad index DSEX witnessed a decline.
The index exhibited a flat movement till midsession and afterwards a steady upward trend was observed till the closure.
Finally, the DSEX settled at 6,265 points with a rise of 0.16 per cent or 10.41 points.
The DSEX lost 145 points between July 20 and August 16 amid a persistent downward trend of the market.
In the Thursday's session, the broad index gained 45 points breaking the losing streak of the previous three sessions.
Following the price appreciations experienced by a majority of the blue chip securities, the DS30 index on Sunday advanced 0.21 per cent or 4.59 points to close at 2,126 points.
EBL Securities in a market review said many opportunist investors took positions in particular scrips that had undergone significant corrections and were traded at a lucrative price level.
The turnover value, however, remained insignificant on Sunday despite the marginal rise of the index.
The DSE posted a turnover of Tk 3.44 billion which was 15 per cent higher than the session executed on Thursday.
Of the four companies of the travel & leisure sector that saw the highest appreciation, two experienced a price increase by 0.16 per cent to 3.12 per cent.
Most of the companies of the IT sector that also helped the broad index to close positive had marginal price appreciation. Intech was the only company of the sector, which had a correction of 2.03 per cent on the DSE.
Some companies secured positions both on the charts of the most traded stocks and top 10 gainers.
Fu Wang Food, which was the day's number one gainer with a rise of 9.90 per cent, topped the chart of top 20 traded stocks.
On Sunday, the company posted a turnover of Tk 331 million.
Emerald Oil Industries, Rupali Life Insurance and Sea Pearl Beach Resort & Spa were among the companies of top 10 gainers.
These three companies were on the chart of top 20 traded stocks on the premier bourse too.
Imam Button Industries was the day's worst loser after declining 4.98 per cent to close at Tk 103.
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