Market recap, 2026-08-31
The session in plain words, from the day's closing prices. Prices adjusted for bonus and rights.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,513.42, down 43.89 points or 1.72%.
Of 347 scrips that traded, 43 rose, 293 fell and 11 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 3.63 Arab.
Manufacturing And Processing Index led the sector indices at +0.71%; Non Life Insurance Index was weakest at −5.03%.
1 scrip closed at the upper daily limit and 5 at the lower.
Most traded by value: SHIVM, SAPIL and RSML.
The market regime reads range.
Sector indices
- Manufacturing And Processing Index+0.71%
- Development Bank Index−0.97%
- Banking SubIndex−1.01%
- Mutual Fund Index−1.02%
- Trading Index−1.11%
- Microfinance Index−1.12%
- Investment Index−1.19%
- Finance Index−1.41%
- Life Insurance Index−1.97%
- Hotels And Tourism Index−2.44%
- HydroPower Index−2.95%
- Others Index−3.31%
- Non Life Insurance Index−5.03%
Top gainers
- ULBSL2,725.00+13.16%
- GCIL398.00+7.57%
- NICAD20911,094.00+6.01%
- PCIL646.00+4.03%
- NABILD20891,100.00+3.97%
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.