Dhaka stocks edged up in the morning session today as the investors started buying shares on expectation of a favourable monetary policy to be unveiled by Bangladesh Bank this afternoon.

The DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose 20 points, or 0.33 per cent, at 6,235 at around 12.55 pm.

At the DSE, 93 stocks advanced, 70 declined and 171 remained the same.

Turnover at the DSE crossed Tk 500 crore.