The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index witnessed a slight decline on Tuesday, falling by 5.17 points to close at 2,566.16.

According to Nepse, a total of 11.5 million shares of 321 companies were traded 50,487 times, amounting to a total turnover of Rs5.45 billion.

Despite the overall fall in the benchmark index, the hotel and tourism, hydropower, microfinance, and trading groups saw gains. The hotel and tourism sub-index rose by 2.15 percent, hydropower by 0.01 percent, microfinance by 0.13 percent, and trading by 2 percent.

However, most other sectors ended in the red. The banking sub-index dropped by 0.34 percent, development banks by 0.91 percent, finance by 0.77 percent, investment by 0.17 percent, life insurance by 0.64 percent, manufacturing and processing by 0.28 percent, mutual funds by 0.08 percent, non-life insurance by 0.19 percent, and the others group by 1.20 percent.

In today’s session, Khani Khola Hydropower Company Limited hit the positive circuit, while Jyoti Bikas Bank Bond–2087 recorded the sharpest decline, losing 5.66 percent of its value.

By turnover, Union Hydropower Limited topped the chart with Rs236.52 million worth of shares traded. In terms of volume, Prabhu Bank Limited led the market with 614,059 shares changing hands.