Nepal, Oct. 26 -- The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index edged up by 5.19 points on Sunday, the first trading day after the Tihar holidays, closing at 2,509.04-an increase of 0.20 percent compared to the previous session.

A total of 5.59 million shares were traded in 27,899 transactions, amounting to a turnover of Rs2.66 billion. Out of the traded companies, share prices of 98 increased, 146 declined, and 4 remained unchanged.

Among the 13 trading sub-indices, life insurance, manufacturing and processing, non-life insurance, others, and trading recorded slight gains, while the remaining sectors posted losses.

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