Market recap, 2026-08-12
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,642.40, up 0.55 points or 0.02%.
Of 347 scrips that traded, 139 rose, 195 fell and 13 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 3.54 Arab.
Investment Index led the sector indices at +2.22%; Manufacturing And Processing Index was weakest at −0.71%.
0 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 2 at the lower.
Most traded by value: NRN, CFCL and SOHL.
The market regime reads range.
Sector indices
- Investment Index+2.22%
- Hotels And Tourism Index+0.86%
- Mutual Fund Index+0.29%
- Finance Index+0.25%
- Non Life Insurance Index+0.09%
- Banking SubIndex+0.05%
- Microfinance Index−0.04%
- Others Index−0.11%
- Life Insurance Index−0.16%
- Trading Index−0.21%
- Development Bank Index−0.23%
- HydroPower Index−0.40%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index−0.71%
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.