Foreign portfolio investment in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) last month shot up by around 200 percent over the previous months investment. The DSE through block market transactions witnessed foreign portfolio investment worth Tk 105.17 crore in January this year, which is around 6.5 percent of the total turnover in the month. In December last year, the DSE experienced Tk 35.33 crore foreign portfolio investment.

It seems that banking sector followed by power, pharmaceutical and cement sectors received most foreign investment. According to the statistics, the foreign portfolio investment was increasing from the month of July last year. In July, the portfolio investment in the DSE was Tk 10.31 crore while it reached Tk 14.57 crore in August, Tk 21.10 crore in September, Tk 14.54 crore in October and Tk 27.72 crore in November.