KATHMANDU: Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index has seen a modest decline. Today, the NEPSE index fell by 7.75 points to settle at 2,698.28.

According to the NEPSE, 21.12 million 3,766 shares of 319 different companies were bought and sold 78,678 times, generating a turnover of Rs 8.77 billion 5,720,293, according to NEPSE.

In today’s trading, the development bank group increased by 0.43 percent, hotels and tourism by 0.06 percent, hydropower by 0.77 percent, investment by 0.17 percent, production and processing by 0.03 percent and mutual funds by 0.44 percent. All other sub-indices decreased. Banking 0.85, Finance 1.03, Life Insurance 0.16, Microfinance 0.11, Non-Life Insurance 0.15, Trade 1.52 and other groups decreased by 1 percent.

Nepal Microinsurance Company Limited and Crest Microlife Insurance Company Limited saw the highest increase in share prices today by 9.99 percent. The share price of NMB Hybrid Fund-2 was the highest decrease by 7.90 percent.