Market recap, 2026-07-16
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,597.80, up 7.51 points or 0.29%.
Of 369 scrips that traded, 172 rose, 183 fell and 14 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 4.58 Arab.
Mutual Fund Index led the sector indices at +1.68%; Finance Index was weakest at −0.66%.
9 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 0 at the lower.
Most traded by value: SHEL, SBD87 and NRN.
The market regime reads range.
Sector indices
- Mutual Fund Index+1.68%
- Microfinance Index+1.23%
- Non Life Insurance Index+1.12%
- Banking SubIndex+0.62%
- Trading Index+0.32%
- Others Index+0.31%
- Life Insurance Index+0.26%
- Investment Index+0.13%
- Development Bank Index+0.08%
- Hotels And Tourism Index−0.09%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index−0.11%
- HydroPower Index−0.34%
- Finance Index−0.66%
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.