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.