Dhaka, Oct. 17 -- The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has suffered a software glitch, the first day it used its Karwan Bazar data centre as a backup for emergency trading.

Several brokerage firms could not trade normally after losing a connection to the exchange's trading software on Saturday.

DSE technicians later fixed the problem, allowing them to resume transactions.

The disruption added to investors' difficulties as turnover fell to Tk 3.17 billion, its lowest in nine and a half months.

The last lower figure was Tk 3.1 billion on Dec 29. The DSE's benchmark index fell 18.87 points to 5,433.17.

The market opened Saturday to adjust public holidays around Durga Puja.

A brokerage chief executive told bdnews24.com that problems began aft...