Dhaka, June 16 -- Both the Dhaka and Chattogram stock exchanges witnessed a significant uptrend on Monday, the second trading day of the week, with a majority of listed companies recording price gains.

At the end of the day's trading, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSEX) rose by 59 points. The Shariah-based DSES index added 16 points, while the blue-chip index DS30 gained 15 points.

Out of 397 companies traded on the DSE, share prices of 315 advanced, 36 declined and 46 remained unchanged.

Prices increased across all three categories of shares - A, B and Z - with the A category, which consists of fundamentally strong companies that regularly offer dividends, seeing notable gains.

Among the 217 A-category companies, 1...