The quota reform movement in government jobs started on July 5. Since the beginning of the student movement, its prevalence has been increasing. The situation turned violent on July 15. Which has an impact on the country’s stock market.
After the agitation and struggle, the market capitalization of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the main stock exchange, decreased by Tk 10,285 crore in the last three weeks. This information was revealed in the data analysis of DSE.
According to DSE data, on July 11, the capital of the stock market was Tk 6 lakh 63 thousand 653 crore. After three weeks last Thursday, the market capitalization decreased to 6 lakh 53 thousand 368 crores.
Reviewing the stock market situation, last week the main index of DSE DSEX stood at 5 thousand 334 points, which was 5 thousand 414 points in the previous week, and 5 thousand 447 points in the previous week.
DSE mark of D-30 last week was 10901 points, which was 10933 points during the week, which was 1093 points during the previous week.
The Shariah Index DSES was 1,165 points last week, 1,183 points in the 1,000 week, and 191 points week-on-week.
DSE totaled taka 2,395 crore last week, up from taka 2,220 crore in the previous week. Its total turnover during the week was Taka 4,448 crores.
Out of a total of 412 companies and mutual funds traded on DSE in the outgoing week, 49 increased, 327 decreased and 20 remained unchanged. Besides, 16 were not traded.
The sector-wise transaction chart shows that the pharmaceuticals and chemicals sector is at the top by occupying 25.03 percent of the total transactions of DSE in the week under discussion. The second highest 11.09 percent has been occupied by the banking sector. The food and related sector is in the third position based on 10.08 percent of transactions. In addition, the information technology sector was in the fourth position based on 9.04 percent of transactions.
In the week under review, shares of all sectors except telecom had negative returns on DSE. Telecom sector had a positive return of 0.01 percent. Ceramics, paper and service sectors were at the top of negative returns. The negative returns in the three sectors are 5.01, 4.05 and 4.04 percent respectively.
