On Friday, October 2, 2026, the NEPSE index closed the week's final session down 11.90 points, a fall of 0.45 percent, to 2,587.25. The figures, reported by OnlineKhabar from NEPSE session data and corroborated to the digit by BizMandu, cap a week in which the benchmark fell four times out of five. Only Thursday's marginal 0.26-point nudge to 2,599.15 interrupted a slide that ran Monday through Friday; tallying the reported daily closes, the index shed 42.55 points across the trading week.
Turnover fell with the index. Friday's 43,685 transactions in 356 listed securities moved 11,912,550 shares worth Rs 4.29 billion, down from Rs 4.89 billion on Thursday. The day's breadth was firmly negative: prices fell for 207 companies and rose for just 61, and every sub-group index except mutual funds and trading closed lower. Production and processing lost the most, down 0.73 percent.
Debentures carried the day's few gains
When the equity side of the board is almost entirely red, the fixed-income corner of NEPSE gets the spotlight. NMB Debenture rose 14.29 percent, the session's biggest gain, and SBL Debenture added 8.80 percent, OnlineKhabar reported. Investors were clearly parking money in the safety of corporate debentures while equities slid, a pattern BizMandu's Nepali-language desk noted as well.
On the losing side, Sindhu Bikas Bank fell 8.55 percent, the steepest equity decline of the day, followed by Dhaulagiri Laghubitta at 4.95 percent. Muktinath Krishi Company, Apollo Hydropower and Sarbottam Paints were also among the large decliners. In turnover terms, SBL Debenture led the market with Rs 26.53 crore of units changing hands, ahead of Reliance Spinning Mills at Rs 15.53 crore, per BizMandu.
A week of measures, a week of waiting
The weak close lands awkwardly against last week's policy headlines. The Finance Ministry announced a set of measures to improve the stock market, and the market has shown it can still respond to genuine policy news: when Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle introduced the Capital Market Strengthening and Revival Action Plan, 2026, the index jumped 48.57 points in a single session to 2,633.62, Corporate Samachar reported. But as OnlineKhabar put it on Friday, the positive effect of last week's measures "was not seen in the market this week," and the session's trend "suggests investors remain in a wait-and-watch mode."
That is the unresolved tension carrying into next week. Announcements move NEPSE when they are new; once they are a week old, the market waits for implementation. Whether the revival measures get the follow-through that converts a wait-and-watch stance into buying is now the single question that matters, and the answer will show up on the board before it shows up anywhere else. This article is an educational breakdown of published market data, not investment advice.