Market recap, 2026-09-17
The session in plain words.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,624.36, up 11.94 points or 0.46%.
Of 339 scrips that traded, 210 rose, 110 fell and 19 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 5.50 Arab.
Life Insurance Index led the sector indices at +1.08%; Investment Index was weakest at −0.18%.
1 scrip closed at the upper daily limit and 1 at the lower.
Most traded by value: SBL, SHIVM and SOHL.
1 new 52-week high and 3 new 52-week lows.
The market regime reads range.
Sector indices
- Life Insurance Index+1.08%
- Hotels And Tourism Index+0.85%
- HydroPower Index+0.64%
- Mutual Fund Index+0.62%
- Banking SubIndex+0.58%
- Microfinance Index+0.55%
- Development Bank Index+0.39%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index+0.28%
- Finance Index+0.23%
- Trading Index+0.22%
- Non Life Insurance Index+0.05%
- Others Index−0.04%
- Investment Index−0.18%
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.