DOHA: Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend Monday, adding 23.47 points (or 0.28 percent) to advance to 8,544.41 points from 8,520.94 Sunday.
The volume of the shares traded up to 7,422,018 from 4,589,941 on Sunday and the value of shares increased to QR291,600,127.58 from QR237,097,797.89 Sunday.
Among the top gainers were Qatar National Bank which was up 0.23 percent to QR133.20, Industries Qatar rose 0.65 percent to QR171.20, Qatar Telecom gained 1.61 percent to QR113.40 and Qatar Navigation up by 1.85 percent to QR66.00.
The Banking and Financial sector index lost 0.09 points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index fell 0.04 points. The industrial sector gained 1.00 points while insurance sector rose 1.77 points. (QNA)
