DSEX Rebounds 0.72% as Breadth Turns Positive and Open-Market Liquidity Recovers (7th Oct 2026)

1. Executive Summary

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rebounded on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, ending a four-session decline. DSEX rose 0.72% to 5,463.89 after holding above the 14 September correction low, and breadth turned positive for the first time since 30 September (191 advances / 134 declines). Turnover rose 7.21% to Tk 6,048.39 mn, and normal-board turnover recovered 10.94% from the previous session's period low. Large caps led: DS30 rose 0.95% and DSES 1.04%. The DSE sentiment gauge moved from 20 ("Extreme Bear") to 48 ("Neutral"). Mutual funds remained the weak segment, and institutions were net sellers. The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also rose: CSCX +0.79% to 9,009.15 and CASPI +0.67% (official).

1.1 DSE Headline Statistics (official)

1.2 CSE Headline Statistics (official, CSE Historical Market Summary)

Note: CSE index, trade, volume and turnover figures are official (CSE Historical Market Summary, printed 7 Oct 2026, 3:19 PM) and match the CSE tick file exactly. The dashboard shows the CSCX change as +70.32; the official closes give +70.31 (rounding). The breadth proxy compares each scrip's last main-board trade on 7 Oct with its last trade on 6 Oct; 57 of 167 main-board scrips had no 6 Oct trade and cannot be classified.

1.3 Cross-Market Conclusion

Direction. DSEX gained 38.98 points (+0.72%) to 5,463.89, its first rise in five sessions. The index did not retest the 14 September correction low of 5,379 (press): the 6 October intraday low of 5,421.69 now stands as the pullback low, 0.79% above it. DSEX is 1.58% above the correction low and has recovered the 5 October close (5,445.28), but it remains below the 4 October close (5,482.36). DS30 (+0.95%) and DSES (+1.04%) outperformed, so large caps led the rebound. On the CSE, CSCX rose 0.79% to 9,009.15 and CASPI 0.67% to 14,655.79, with CSE30 (+1.26%) and CSE50 (+1.15%) stronger still.

Liquidity and intensity. DSE turnover rose +7.21% and volume +7.44%, while transactions were nearly flat (+0.23%). Unlike 6 October, the increase came from the open market: normal-board turnover rose 10.94% to Tk 5,544.10 mn, and block turnover fell 22.51% to Tk 493.34 mn (8.16% of total). Average turnover per transaction rose +6.96% to Tk 35,049. CSE turnover fell –11.40% to Tk 147.52 mn on 1,007 trades, and block trades made up 68.74% of it.

Breadth and participation. DSE breadth was 191 advances / 134 declines (A/D 1.43), against 79 / 270 on 6 October. That ends four consecutive sessions with more than 2.5 decliners per advancer. Gains were broad across Engineering, Pharma, Banks and Textile, while mutual funds and general insurers were net weaker. Investor flow was mixed: retail (+1.43% of total), foreign investors (+0.53%) and "Others" (+0.22%) were net buyers, and institutions were net sellers (–2.00%) after three sessions of net buying. Foreign participation fell back to 0.87% of activity from 4.42%.

Relative activity and concentration. The DSE accounted for 97.62% of combined turnover. Textile took 32.01% of DSE main-board turnover, and the top ten counters 33.51%, led by ETL (Tk 384.59 mn, +9.52%). On the CSE, PTL accounted for 63.4% of turnover. Overall, the session was a broad-based rebound on higher open-market turnover from just above the September low. That is the first constructive evidence since 30 September, but that earlier bounce failed the next day, so one session does not confirm a reversal.

2. DSE Market Activity Snapshot