DSE turnover hits 25bn mark

Daily trade turnover on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) reached  Tk 25 billion mark on Sunday, for the first time in nine and a half years.

Riding on the block transaction of GlaxoSmithKline shares the day's turnover stood at Tk 25.43 billion on the country’s premier bourse, from Tk 683 million in the previous session.

This is the biggest single-day transaction in the last nine and a half years since December 06, 2010, when the turnover totalled a record Tk 27.10 billion.

DSEX, the key index of the DSE, went up by 4.94 points or 0.12 per cent to settle at 3,974 during the three-hour trading session.

Two other DSE indices also edged up. Of them, DS30 index, comprising blue chips, advanced 1.41 points to finish at 1,331 and Shariah index rose 2.24 points to close at 921.