, March 5 -- Stocks ended the week on a sharp downturn on Thursday as key indices of both the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) fell significantly, with the majority of listed companies witnessing price declines.

The market opened on a negative note at the DSE and failed to recover throughout the session. At the close, the benchmark DSEX index dropped 82 points.

The Shariah-based DSES index lost 13 points while the blue-chip DS30 index declined 33 points.

Most of the listed securities ended lower: prices fell for 308 companies, while 52 advanced and 33 remained unchanged.

Turnover also declined, with shares and units worth Tk 459 crore traded during the session, down from Tk 582 crore in the previous t...