Stock Market Analysis: DSE index falls below 6,000 points, demands for market regulation reforms

“If someone has invested in good stocks, there is no need to panic and sell those stocks,” Farooq Ahmed Siddiqui, former chairman of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), the capital market regulatory body, told Prothom Alo. Even if the prices of these stocks fall temporarily, this will change. According to relevant sources, BSEC held […]

DSEX: Investors misled due to withdrawal of good companies, manipulative stocks dominate

Investors are getting the wrong message as a large number of good companies have been ousted from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)’s flagship index – DSEX – leaving manipulative stocks to dominate. In the DSE, leading companies like ACI, RAK Ceramics, Titus, Crown Cement, Walton, IDLC and IPDC, known for their strong fundamentals, have been […]

Is the block trade policy giving undue advantage to deep pocketed investors?

The ‘It’s one market, double policy’ was probably introduced to protect all traders in the market. However, this is negatively impacting traders with limited capital with diversified portfolios, who cannot make bulk purchases of a particular stock from the block market, while traders with deep pockets can make huge profits even at the floor price […]