The two other indices also inched up. The DS30 index, comprising blue chips, advanced 1.

01 points to
finish at 1,513 and the DSES (Shariah) index gained 2.74 points to settle at 999.

Turnover, another important indicator of the market, stood at Tk 3.18 billion, which was 6.0 per cent
higher than the previous day's turnover of Tk 3.0 billion.

Stock kept gaining as investors' bargain hunting in hope of bagging profit at the beginning of next year in
expectation of the market to make a turnaround as seen in historic trends, commented EBL Securities, in
its regular market analysis.

The stockbroker noted that the banking sector witnessed notable interest from investors preceded by
year-end earnings and dividend disclosure.

According to International Leasing Securities, the final hour buying pressure from the bargain hunters on
bank, pharma, textile and IT sectors' stocks helped the index to close higher.

The banking sector booked the highest gain of 0.87 per cent, followed by pharmaceuticals with 0.61 per
cent and financial institutions 0.13 per cent.

The power sector witnessed the highest loss of 0.58 per cent, followed by engineering with 0.34 per
cent, food 0.06 per cent and telecom 0.04 per cent.

A total of 100,015 trades were executed in the day's trading session with trading volume of 110.37
million shares and mutual fund units.

The market-cap of DSE increased to Tk 3,395 billion on Monday, from Tk 3,388 billion the previous day.

The gainers took a modest lead over the losers as out of 355 issues traded, 1554 closed higher, 142
ended lower and 59 issues remained unchanged on the DSE trading floor.

Khulna Power topped the day's turnover chart with shares worth Tk 136 million changing hands, closely
followed by Brac Bank, National Life Insurance, Beacon Pharmaceuticals and Square Pharma.

Khulna Power was also the day's best performer, posting a gain of 8.85 per cent while Al-Haj Textile was
the day's biggest loser, shedding 9.88 per cent.

The port city's bourse, Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE), also edged higher with the CSE All Share Price
Index - CASPI - gaining 19 points to settle at 13,505 while the Selective Categories Index - CSCX -
advancing 11 points to finish the year at 81.87.

The losers, however, beat the gainers as 107 issues closed lower, 84 ended higher and 39 remained
unchanged.

The port city bourse traded 6.65 million shares and mutual fund units worth Tk 188 million in turnover.

Stocks keep gaining as year-end nears

Today last trading session of 2019

 FE Report |  December 30, 2019 00:00:00

Stocks extended the gaining spell for the second straight session on Sunday as bargain hunters
continued to show their buying interest on sector-wise issues ahead of year-end.

The investors were active from the beginning of the session and the upward trend continued till the end
of the session with no sign of reversal.

At the end of the session, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, went up by 15.10 points
or 0.34 per cent to settle at 4,433 over the previous session.

Market analysts said lucrative price level of fundamentally sound stocks attracted bargain hunters,
taking the market into the green zone.

A leading broker said investors showed their appetite on sector specific large-cap stocks, particularly
from banking sector, as the year-end sale pressure eased to some extent.

Today (Monday) is the last trading session of 2019. Trading on the bourses will remained closed
tomorrow (Tuesday) due to bank holiday.

Two other indices edged up with the DS30 index, comprising blue chips, gained 3.3.7 points to finish at
1,512 and the DSE Shariah Index advanced 2.18 points to close at 997.

Turnover, another important indicator of the market, stood at Tk 3.0 billion, which was 1.63 per cent
lower than the previous day's turnover of Tk 3.05 billion.

According to International Leasing Securities, positive momentum in some large-cap stocks, particularly
from bank, financial institutions, pharma and food sectors created sound in the investors' temper.

Food sector booked the highest gain of 1.40 per cent, followed by banking with 0.71 per cent,
engineering 0.54 per cent, financial institutions 0.34 per cent and pharmaceuticals 0.11 per cent.

The port city bourse, Chittagong Stock Exchange, also ended marginally higher with its CSE All Share
Price Index - CASPI -advancing 22 points to settle at 13,486 and the Selective Categories Index - CSCX
-gaining 13 points to finish at 8,176.

Here too, the gainers beat the losers as 108 issues closed higher, 85 ended lower and 39 remained
unchanged.

The port city bourse traded 6.84 million shares and mutual fund units worth Tk 201 million in turnover.

DSE index of 40 cos from Dec 30

Technical collaboration with Shenzhen Stock Exchange

 FE REPORT |  December 27, 2019 00:00:00

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) is set to introduce a new index dubbed 'CNI-DSE Select Index (CDSET)'
comprising well-performing companies on December 30.

The index is designed and developed by Shenzhen Securities Information Company, a subsidiary of
Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), and the DSE as part of technical collaboration plan between the
country's prime bourse and its strategic partner, said a DSE statement.

An SZSE-led Chinese consortium, made up of Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Exchanges, became the
strategic partner of the DSE in September last year by purchasing DSE's 25 per cent stake worth about Tk
9.47 billion.

Besides, the Chinese consortium also offered technical supports worth nearly $37 million for free.

DSE Chairman Prof Dr Abul Hashem will formally inaugurate the new index on Monday at the DSE new
building at Nikunja in the capital.

DSE director from strategic investors' category XieWenhai and general manager of Shenzhen Securities
Information Company Ltd. Xi Jing Ping will attend the inaugural ceremony.

Initially, some 40 well-performing large, medium and small capitalised companies have been included in
the new index so that investors can easily understand the price movement of these shares.

For the CNI-DSE Select Index, DSE and Shenzhen Stock Exchange selected the companies considering
their profitability, market capitalisation and turnover. Performance of the companies will be reviewed
every six months.

The DSE expects that the new index will attract foreign investors in the country's capital market, which
will also help promote its branding in the global market.

The DSE website will start displaying the index values on its homepage on January 1, 2020, the DSE
statement said.

The base date of the index is December 31, 2015 with base value of 1,000 points.

On November 9 this year, Liu Fuzhong, a director of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, said they are going to
introduce a new index at the DSE to attract investors to the secondary market of Bangladesh's premier
bourse.

Fuzhong said this at the inaugural ceremony of the third China-Bangladesh Capital Market Cooperation
Seminar in the southeastern Chinese city where a group of Bangladeshi journalists were present.

The SZSE and the DSE jointly organised the event at the conference room of the SZSE with V-next, Asian
Tiger Capital Partners, and Kingdom Technology as co-organisers.

MrFuzhong said, "We are working with the DSE to improve the technology of a platform which will
reduce information asymmetry on the listed companies. If information asymmetry does not prevail,
manipulation reduces."

Currently, DSE has three indices-DSE broad index, DSE 30 index and DSE Shairah Index.