Kathmandu, The stock market, which saw a correction on Tuesday, rose on Wednesday. The market, which had declined by 5.57 points on Tuesday due to continuous rise, has risen again by 15.87 points today and stopped at 2342.76 points.

A total of 159.81 million 852 shares of 211 companies have been bought and sold at a price of Rs 6.21 billion. Today, the share prices of 15 companies have risen by more than 9 percent. The highest priced shares of Nepal Life Insurance Company Limited have been bought and sold. Shares of the company worth more than Rs 614 million have been bought and sold. Even yesterday, the highest priced share of Nepal Life was sold. Shares of the company worth more than Rs 919.7 million were bought and sold yesterday.

Of the 12 groups traded, the index of five groups has decreased while the index of the remaining groups has increased. Banking group 0.14 percent, industry group 0.3 percent, hotel group 1.12 percent, manufacturing and processing group 1.05 percent and other groups 0.64 percent.

The highest growth rate was in the life insurance group. The group's index rose 4.67 percent.