Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 22 -- Bangladesh's capital market passed a chaotic week as securities regulator imposed new circuit breaker, markets operators said.

The bourses also decided to cut an hour trading time to minimize the losses due to free-fall of stock prices. Now, trading will be held between 10:30am to 1:30pm from Sunday until further notice.

Despite this news, stocks tumbled further last week as jittery investors dumped their holdings in the first three sessions of the week amid mounting fears over coronavirus outbreak.

DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, went down by 155 points or 3.75 per cent to settle at 3,975, as last session's 371 points gain failed to recover the previous three days' free-fall.

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