Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) today formed a four-member committee to probe nine listed companies' unusual price hike in the recent time.
Trade on a normal day ends at 2:30pm.
From today, the pre-opening session begins at 9:45am and the post-closing session ends at 2:15pm, said a BSEC press release.
The DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), nosedived 19.35 points, or 0.31 per cent to 6,177.21.
Investors are raking in profits from the market as the prime index had risen to its highest point in three-and-a-half years, said a merchant banker.
Last Monday, the DSE s index soared to 6,219. When the market opened on a rising trend yesterday, many people started availing profits and the rising trend proves that investors had confidence on the market, he said.