Market recap, 2026-09-23
The session in plain words.
The session
NEPSE closed at 2,618.03, down 36.25 points or 1.37%.
Of 352 scrips that traded, 50 rose, 290 fell and 12 closed unchanged.
Turnover was about Rs 6.33 Arab.
Mutual Fund Index led the sector indices at −0.15%; Life Insurance Index was weakest at −2.05%.
1 scrip closed at the upper daily limit and 0 at the lower.
Most traded by value: SHIVM, RSML and HDL.
2 new 52-week highs and 1 new 52-week low.
The market regime reads range.
Sector indices
- Mutual Fund Index−0.15%
- Manufacturing And Processing Index−0.45%
- Hotels And Tourism Index−0.98%
- Finance Index−1.10%
- Banking SubIndex−1.23%
- Trading Index−1.26%
- Microfinance Index−1.31%
- Non Life Insurance Index−1.32%
- Development Bank Index−1.37%
- Investment Index−1.50%
- Others Index−1.66%
- HydroPower Index−1.67%
- Life Insurance Index−2.05%
Top gainers
- DLBS1,341.90+15.00%
- CYCL1,531.00+5.44%
- NIFRAGED1,082.00+5.04%
- NIFRAUR85/861,050.00+3.87%
- PBD841,080.00+3.84%
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.