|| Online Desk: After a long recession and instability, the country's stock market has instilled hope among investors. The stock market has seen the highest trading volume in two years. Along with trading, the index, capital and investor participation have also increased significantly. In less than two months, the share prices of more than half a hundred companies have reached their highest levels in the past one year. The prices of about 150 shares have doubled to eight times compared to the lowest prices in the past one year.Experts say that the new BNP-led government has given importance to the stock market. The government has taken positive steps for the capital market in the recently passed budget. Apart from this, there has been a lack of trust in the regulatory body for a long time. Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has brought about radical changes in the top leadership of the stock market regulatory body BSEC. Corporate personality Masud Khan has been given the responsibility of the new chairman. He made his position clear by joining as the chairman of BSEC. Masud Khan presented a bunch of written action plans and promises on how he wants to establish the stock market as the main source of capital supply by gaining the trust and confidence of the country's industrial entrepreneurs, businessmen and domestic and foreign investors.Expressing his commitment to transform the country's capital market into a transparent, credible and institutional investment-based market, the BSEC Chairman said that his goal is to elevate Bangladesh from the current 'frontier market' to an 'emerging market'. He announced that he would follow the policy of regulation where necessary and simplification where possible to restore the lost confidence of the market. He said that active initiatives will be taken to bring multinational companies, state-owned enterprises and large local corporates to the market. Mentioning the adoption of a policy of mandatory listing of public interest companies exceeding a certain amount of capital or business or loan size, he said that they will be encouraged to raise capital from the stock market, not forcedly. For this, a listed company benefit program will be launched.On the other hand, BSEC Chairman Masud Khan said that everyone should fulfill their responsibilities and be accountable. He said that the stock exchange should be given full freedom in market monitoring and supervision of listed companies. He said that the stock exchange will fulfill its responsibilities within the legal limits. The commission will not interfere in this matter. If necessary, the power of the stock exchange will be increased. If it is felt that the stock exchange is not able to take sufficient steps or measures in the interest of investors or if the exchange does not have legal jurisdiction, the commission will exercise its power.It is learnt that several capital market-friendly steps have been taken in this year's budget. Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said that his government wants to move away from bank-dependent financing and build an investment-based economy. He also mentioned that major reforms are needed in the stock market for this.The masterminds of the stock market scam will be tried: On the other hand, the stock market manipulators are being brought to justice. In this regard, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman himself said in parliament that strict legal action will be taken by identifying those responsible for the continuous decline in the stock market and destitute thousands of investors. He said that the current government is determined to restore the confidence of investors through a fair investigation and trial of the irregularities and manipulations that took place in the capital market during the previous Awami League government.Signs of a turnaround: Market analysis shows that the country's stock market is showing signs of a turnaround after a long period of weak performance. The prices of good and fundamental stocks have been increasing for several days. Yesterday, Sunday, the prices of most shares and units of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) in the country's main stock market increased. This led to an increase in all price indices of the exchange. In addition, the highest trading volume in almost two years was recorded in this Dhaka stock market. Yesterday, at the beginning of trading, most shares and units of the DSE increased. As the day progressed, this list grew larger. This trend continued and at the end of the day, the trading ended with most shares and units increasing. A total of 392 companies' shares and units were traded on the DSE. Of these, 199 increased in price and 156 decreased in price. And the prices of 37 remained unchanged at the end of the day. Due to the large list of price increases, the main price index of the DSE, DSEX, increased by 45 points compared to the previous day to stand at 5,849 points.An analysis of the share prices of companies listed on the DSE has shown that the share prices of 44 companies are currently within a 5 percent gap between the highest price of the past year or that price. The shares of 143 companies are within the 10 percent range. In the last two to six months, the shares of 68 companies have increased in price from at least double to a maximum of eight times compared to the lowest price of the past year. The shares of another 127 companies have increased in price from at least 50 percent to almost double. There are currently 355 companies listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange. Share trading is also increasing.Shares worth over Tk 1,000 crore were traded on all 24 days of the last six weeks. An average of Tk 1,258 crore worth of shares were traded during this period. Such a pace of trading has not been seen for such a long time since November 2022. Shares worth over Tk 1,000 crore were traded on several days in late May and early June 2023 or the first two weeks of February 2024 and late August and early September 2025. However, the extent of this was not as long as it is now. An analysis of the rise in share prices over the past two months has shown that the share prices of the insurance and textile sectors have increased the most. Most of the shares that have doubled or tripled are from these two sectors. Apart from this, some specific shares in the engineering, information technology and energy sectors have also seen a big rise.The highest price of Domination Steel Company shares has increased by almost eight times compared to the lowest price in the last one year. On June 23 last year, the shares of this company were traded at a price of 10 taka, which was traded at 81 taka 40 paisa last Thursday. On June 8, the shares were traded at a high of 83 taka 80 paisa this year.c