Banda renders zilch effect on stock market

The domestic stock market remained untouched by the impact of the nation-wide banda (general shutdown) called by the CPN (Maoist) led by Netra Bikram Chand.
The stock market index that had been witnessing a continuous bearish trend for the past few days reached to 1,700 points today, the first day of the week, with an increase of 2.83 points compared to last Friday, according to the Nepal Stock Exchange Ltd, the sole authorised agency for share transactions. On Sunday’s stock market, a total of 862,269 units of share worth Rs some 732 million of 137 companies were purchased and sold. RSS