However, investors might get temporary confidence and the shares of existing banks and financial institutions might flare due to Nepal Rastra Bank's new policy of putting a temporary halt to the issuance of licences to Group A, B and C banks and financial institutions. Nepse has over 85 per cent dominance of banks and financial institutions.
Hydropower companies, commercial banks and finance companies subgroups lost heavily with their indices plunging by 29 points to 948.19 points from Sunday's opening of 977.19 points, 24.07 points to 728.26 points from Sunday's opening of 752.33 points and 14.16 points to 678.41 points from Sunday's opening of 692.57 points, respectively.
The trading sub-group also lost 8.57 points to dip to 281.78 points from the opening 290.35 points, whereas development banks sub-group lost 7.33 points to drop to 741.15 points from the opening 748.48 points. The insurance sub-group slid by 5.07 points to 646.24 points from the opening 651.31 points.
Of nine sub-groups, two -- manufacturing and hotels -- saw no trading but the others sub-group was the only gainer with a 1.17point gain to rise to 670.86 points from Sunday's opening of 669.69 points. Transaction amount decreased by 44.29 per cent to Rs 263.38 million against last week's Rs 472.82 million.
In the total transactions, Group-A companies contributed 46.75 per cent. The 78-scrip sensitive index -- a barometer of Group-A companies -- lost 5.49 points from the opening 190.46 points.
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