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Reporting and analysis on the Nepal Stock Exchange.
The telecom regulator's fine is small; its halt order is the point
Six providers must pull any tariff launched without clearance, freezing a cut-price broadband contest days after it began.
Nepal's credit pickup is trade finance, not the recovery it looks like
The first-quarter lending jump is import finance and festive stocking, not the industrial demand that would lift bank earnings.
A buy-local rule aims state demand at idle cement mills
Public projects must now favor domestic cement and steel over imported bitumen, in industries running at 40–60% of capacity.
Banks paid up to lift NEPSE into Dashain as hydropower traded two-way
Bank orders lifted offers into the holiday, while hydropower, with nearly half the day's money, was evenly matched.
SEBON's fund draft puts steady inflows first and new products last
Regular-investment plans would tie fund money to household saving within a year; ETFs come only after 24 months.
SEBON moves on NEPSE's overhaul, but sets no date for changes
The regulator says it will use its own powers on ownership, trading systems and new products, but nothing yet changes how shares trade.
SEBON draft would push institutions into shares, but cap any one bet
Institutions would have to hold listed shares, but no more than 5% of assets in any one issuer, so new money would be spread thin.
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