Market recap, 2026-03-16
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,798.83, down 26.07 points or 0.92%.
Of 345 scrips that traded, 79 rose, 253 fell and 13 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 12.0 Arab.
Manufacturing And Processing Index led the sector indices at +0.26%; Banking SubIndex was weakest at −1.61%.
5 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 0 at the lower.
Most traded by value: AKJCL, NHPC and UHEWA.
Sector indices
- Manufacturing And Processing Index+0.26%
- Trading Index−0.21%
- Hotels And Tourism Index−0.26%
- Mutual Fund Index−0.41%
- Non Life Insurance Index−0.46%
- HydroPower Index−0.62%
- Finance Index−0.72%
- Microfinance Index−0.75%
- Development Bank Index−0.85%
- Life Insurance Index−0.95%
- Others Index−1.10%
- Investment Index−1.53%
- Banking SubIndex−1.61%
Top gainers
Limits and 52-week extremes
Turnover is close times volume per scrip, so it sits near the exchange’s own figure rather than on it. A 52-week reading needs a year of listing. The regime is the one on the breadth page.