Hamro Bikas Bank Ltd has proposed 7 percent bonus share and
20 percent cash dividend to its shareholders from the net profit it
posted in the last fiscal year 2070/71. A meeting of Board of Directors of the development bank took the decision to this effect on Saturday.
Unique Finance Ltd has proposed 11.5 percent bonus share and cash
dividend to cover the tax on that for the last fiscal year 2070/71.A
meeting of Board of Directors of the finance company on Friday took the
decision to this effect.
Trading at Nepal Stock Exchange Limited (Nepse), the only secondary
market of the country was halted for the day after the benchmark index
shed staggering 5 percent -- after a several years -- to close at 875.76
level.
A brief history of NEPSE Index so that we can make some analogies to the present market scenario: 20th DEC 2007- 1055.73 24th MARCH 2008- 704.5(Correction before completing the bull, difference of 351.23(-33.26%)
Too
bad the market is so much down. The spiral effect of the "1% directive"
from the NRB has hurt Nepali share market so badly. I do not know about
the motivating factors for the NRB bureaucrats, but certainly they are
responsible for this down turn. This is not a normal market correction.