Market recap, 2026-03-22
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,931.55, up 54.52 points or 1.90%.
Of 363 scrips that traded, 251 rose, 96 fell and 16 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 23.7 Arab.
Microfinance Index led the sector indices at +4.21%; Trading Index was weakest at −0.11%.
8 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 0 at the lower.
Most traded by value: KBL, NHPC and SHIVM.
Sector indices
- Microfinance Index+4.21%
- Hotels And Tourism Index+3.06%
- Non Life Insurance Index+2.73%
- Banking SubIndex+2.50%
- Development Bank Index+2.47%
- Finance Index+2.14%
- Life Insurance Index+2.00%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index+1.93%
- Others Index+1.72%
- Mutual Fund Index+1.24%
- Investment Index+0.77%
- HydroPower Index+0.34%
- Trading Index−0.11%
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.