Jumbangla Desk: Out of the continuous decline in prices, there was some upward trend in the country's stock market last week. Shares and unit prices of most of the companies rose continuously in the last three working days of the week. In addition to the large rise in the price index, the market capitalization increased. The market capitalization of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the main stock market, has increased by about 8.5 thousand crores. The main price index rose almost a hundred points. With that, the volume of transactions has increased.

This is the 12th week of stock markets under the interim government that has taken charge of running the country. Before this, the stock market has passed another 11 weeks under the interim government. In total, the stock market price index increased only 2 weeks out of 12 weeks traded under the interim government.

After the fall of the Hasina government, the stock market jumped, but after the new interim government took over, the stock market fell sharply in the first two weeks. However, in the third week, the stock market showed an upward trend. But in the fourth week the price fell again. The decline continues in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and 11th weeks.

In such a situation, the list of price increases in the stock market has increased throughout the last week. Along with that, the stock market has come out of continuous price decline. 279 of the firms traded on the DSE during the last week were on the list of price hikers. On the contrary, the price of 101 has decreased. And the price of 15 remains unchanged.

As a result, the market capitalization of DSE stood at Tk 6 lakh 65 thousand 332 crores at the end of the last working day of the week . Which was 6 lakh 56 thousand 868 crore on the last working day of the previous week. That is, the market capital increased by 8 thousand 464 crore taka or 1.29 percent during the week.

DSE's main price index DSEX rose by 84.80 points or 1.66 percent last week as most firms were on the bullish list. The index fell by 143.38 points or 2.73 percent in the previous week. The index fell by 809 points in the previous 10 weeks. As a result, although the price index increased last week, the main price index of DSE decreased by 725 points in the 12 weeks of trading in the stock market after the interim government took over.

Along with the main price index, the DSE-30 index, which is made up of selected good companies, rose last week. The index rose by 46.87 points or 2.49 percent last week. And the DSE Shariah index, which comprises companies operating on the basis of Islamic Shariah, rose by 89.89 points or 0.8 percent last week.

All the price indices rose along with the trading speed last week. An average of Tk 416 crore 65 lakh was transacted on DSE every working day last week. In the previous week, the average daily transaction was Tk 338 crore 68 lakh. That is, the average transaction per working day has increased by 77 crore 97 lakh taka or 23.02 percent.

Shares of Lovello Ice Cream were the most traded shares on the DSE in terms of rupees during the week. The company's shares were traded on an average of Tk 12 crore 75 lakhs daily, which is 3.06 percent of the total transactions. The shares of BRAC Bank, which is in the second place, traded an average of Tk 11 crore 86 lakh per day. Islami Bank is in the third position with an average transaction of Tk 10 crore 44 lakh per day.

Apart from this, the list of top ten trading companies includes - Fareast Knitting, Ibn Sina Pharmaceuticals, Grameenphone, Agni Systems, Acme Laboratories, Bangladesh Shipping Corporation and Asiatic Laboratories.