Market recap, 2026-03-19
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,877.03, up 64.69 points or 2.30%.
Of 342 scrips that traded, 283 rose, 53 fell and 6 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 21.2 Arab.
Development Bank Index led the sector indices at +3.96%; Mutual Fund Index was weakest at +0.05%.
5 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 0 at the lower.
Most traded by value: NHPC, NGPL and RIDI.
Sector indices
- Development Bank Index+3.96%
- Banking SubIndex+3.16%
- Life Insurance Index+2.77%
- HydroPower Index+2.30%
- Others Index+1.98%
- Finance Index+1.94%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index+1.89%
- Non Life Insurance Index+1.81%
- Investment Index+1.77%
- Hotels And Tourism Index+1.76%
- Microfinance Index+1.25%
- Trading Index+0.15%
- Mutual Fund Index+0.05%
Top gainers
Top losers
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.