KATHMANDU: The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index witnessed a double-digit gain today. The NEPSE index increased by 25.07 points, closing at 2,678.17 points.

According to NEPSE, a total of 311 companies were traded today. In 81,738 transactions, 23,697,145 shares were bought and sold, amounting to a total turnover of NPR 10.16 billion.

All the sub-indices of the groups increased in today’s trading. The finance group increased the most by 5.12 percent. Banking increased by 0.93, development bank by 0.71, hotel and tourism by 1.28, hydropower by 0.46, investment by 0.68 and life insurance by 1.08 percent.

Similarly, manufacturing and manufacturing increased by 25, microfinance by 0.61, mutual fund by 0.23, non-life insurance by 1.26, trade by 1.07 and other groups by 1.51 percent.

In today’s trading, the share prices of Pure Energy Limited and Shree Investment Finance Company Limited have entered a positive circuit. The share price of Rawa Energy Development Limited has decreased by 6.14 percent.

Based on the transaction amount and the number of shares traded, the highest number of 26,33,728 units of Hydro Investment and Development Company Limited promoter shares worth Rs. 584,953,871 were bought and sold today.