Kathmandu, May 12 -- Nepal Stock Exchange last week slipped marginally by 2.43 points to close at 1,291.96 points, as short term investors continued their rush to book profits amid soaring stock prices.

Along with the market index, the average daily turnover also fell to Rs693.62 million in the last week from Rs1.10 billion in the previous week.

The secondary market opened at 1,294.39 points on Sunday, slid 16.71 points to close at 1,277.68 points. However, the market gained 21.73 points and 1.87 points on Monday and Tuesday respectively. The market could not maintain the momentum on the remaining two trading days, losing 3.68 points and 5.64 points respectively.

Eventually, the market declined by a marginal 0.19 percent over the revie...