Stock trading resumes today

Trading at the stock market is going to resume today after a nine-day Eid vacation.

The trading on the bourses begins at 10:30am and will continue until 2:30pm as usual. The office hours are from 9:30am to 5:30pm.

The vacation began on May 31 on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr and included the weekend and a special holiday.

On the last trading day before the vacation, stocks performed well as investors showed appetite for stocks amid high post-Eid expectations.

On May 30, the DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, went up by 23.54 points, or 0.44 percent, to settle at 5,377.

Turnover, another important indicator of the market, rose to Tk 425 crore, up by 28 percent.