Market recap, 2026-08-18
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,622.48, down 19.34 points or 0.73%.
Of 346 scrips that traded, 80 rose, 254 fell and 12 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 4.53 Arab.
Trading Index led the sector indices at +0.41%; Manufacturing And Processing Index was weakest at −1.40%.
2 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 2 at the lower.
Most traded by value: SOHL, KKHC and UMHL.
The market regime reads range.
Sector indices
- Trading Index+0.41%
- Microfinance Index−0.37%
- Finance Index−0.38%
- Non Life Insurance Index−0.58%
- Banking SubIndex−0.59%
- Development Bank Index−0.60%
- Mutual Fund Index−0.71%
- Life Insurance Index−0.77%
- Investment Index−0.84%
- Hotels And Tourism Index−0.85%
- HydroPower Index−0.92%
- Others Index−0.98%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index−1.40%
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.