Market recap, 2026-08-26
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,558.35, down 35.92 points or 1.38%.
Of 348 scrips that traded, 47 rose, 290 fell and 11 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 4.78 Arab.
Trading Index led the sector indices at −0.05%; Non Life Insurance Index was weakest at −3.91%.
2 scrips closed at the upper daily limit and 8 at the lower.
Most traded by value: CHCL, TAMOR and SAHAS.
The market regime reads range.
Sector indices
- Trading Index−0.05%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index−0.40%
- Hotels And Tourism Index−0.55%
- Mutual Fund Index−0.59%
- Banking SubIndex−0.74%
- Development Bank Index−0.84%
- Microfinance Index−0.91%
- Finance Index−1.11%
- Investment Index−1.30%
- Others Index−1.44%
- Life Insurance Index−1.52%
- HydroPower Index−2.85%
- Non Life Insurance Index−3.91%
Top gainers
- SAPIL1,102.64+15.00%
- UHEWA667.00+10.43%
- EBLD851,129.80+6.08%
- CZBILP109.00+5.83%
- NABILD20891,087.90+5.62%
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.