Himal Press 
KATHMANDU: The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index extended its gains for a third straight session on Tuesday, gaining 7.06 points to close at 2,654.28.
This was the week’s first trading session, as trading was suspended on Monday following a ransomware attack on a server hosting the Trade Management System (TMS) for 72 brokerage firms, according to Nepse.
Although the benchmark index recovered from an early decline and hit an intraday high of 2,662.72 points within the first trading hour, it pared most of its gains as the session progressed. However, some late buying activity ensured that the index closed the session in the green.
Unit prices of 138 stocks increased during the session, while 130 declined and 11 remained unchanged. Total turnover improved to Rs 7.05 billion from the previous session, with 21.58 million units traded through 70,961 transactions.
Among individual stocks, Mid Solu Hydropower posted the highest gain of 14.99%. First Microfinance Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. and Mailungkhola Jalavidut Company Ltd. followed with gains of 7.75% and 5.63%, respectively. On the other hand, Snow Rivers Ltd posted the largest loss of 8.23%. Next were Narayani Development Bank and Bottlers Nepal (Balaju) Ltd., with losses of 6.96% and 6.75%, respectively.
Hathway Investment Nepal Ltd. topped the turnover chart with total transactions worth Rs 444.04 million. Himalayan Distillery Ltd. and Ghalemdi Hydro Ltd. followed with turnovers of Rs 403.63 million and Rs 221.52 million, respectively.
The sub-indices of seven of the 13 trading groups posted gains on Tuesday. The Others sub-index posted the biggest gain of 1.36%, while the Trading sub-index suffered the largest loss of 0.93%
