Market recap, 2026-08-24
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,599.58, down 19.14 points or 0.73%.
Of 349 scrips that traded, 60 rose, 279 fell and 10 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 3.24 Arab.
Hotels And Tourism Index led the sector indices at −0.01%; HydroPower Index was weakest at −1.19%.
2 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 3 at the lower.
Most traded by value: RSML, SOHL and SAHAS.
The market regime reads range.
Sector indices
- Hotels And Tourism Index−0.01%
- Investment Index−0.42%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index−0.47%
- Development Bank Index−0.48%
- Trading Index−0.51%
- Microfinance Index−0.54%
- Banking SubIndex−0.68%
- Others Index−0.78%
- Finance Index−0.80%
- Life Insurance Index−0.82%
- Mutual Fund Index−0.82%
- Non Life Insurance Index−1.12%
- HydroPower Index−1.19%
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.