Kathmandu, Oct. 29 -- 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 insur...