DOHA: Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend Wednesday, adding 12.64 points or 0.14 percent to advance to 8,858.29 points from 8,845.65 on Tuesday.
The volume of the shares traded up to 12,155,718 from 11,443,141 on Tuesday and the value of shares increased to QR567,160,025.08 from QR415,045,981.64 Tuesday.
Among the top gainers were Qatar National Bank which was up 1.05 percent to QR144, Qatar Telecom rose 0.69 percent to QR116.30, Gulf International gained 0.75 percent to QR40.50 and United Development Company up by 1.23 percent to QR19.74.
The Banking and Financial sector index up 0.29 points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index added 0.24 points.
The industrial sector gained 0.15 points while insurance sector rose 0.19 points. (QNA)
