DOHA: Qatar Exchange’s (QE’s) benchmark index gained 192.64 points, or1.98 percent, during the past trading week when the bourse closed yesterday at 9,941.42 points.
Trading value during the week increased by 5.23 percent to reach about QR1.39bn compared to about QR1.32bn.
The trading volume during the week decreased by 6.71 percent to reach about 39.65 million shares against about 42.5 million shares in the previous week, while the number of transactions rose by 12.17 percent, to reach 24,661 transactions as compared to 21,986 transactions.
Market cap rose by 1.58 percent to reach about QR535.09bn compared to about QR526.76bn at the end of previous week.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded value during the week accounting for 28.98 percent of the total. Industries sector accounted for 26.28 percent. Consumer Goods and Services sector accounted for 17.22 percent and Real Estate sector accounted for 10.60 percent. Banking and Financial Services sector led traded volume in the week with 35.73 percent of the total traded volume.
Industries sector accounted for 20.21 percent. Real Estate sector accounted for 18.42 percent and Consumer Goods and Services sector accounted for 9.09 percent.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded number of transactions during the week with 27.85 percent of the total transactions. Industries sector accounted for 22.13 percent. Real Estate sector accounted for 15.17 percent and Consumer Goods and Services sector accounted for 14.11 percent. From the 44 listed companies 33 ended during the week higher, while nine fell and two remained unchanged.
Medicare Group led trading value during the week which accounted for 10.55 percent of the total. Qatari Investors Group accounted for 10.04 percent and Gulf Warehousing accounted for 6.02 percent, reports QNA.
When compared on daily basis the QE index gained 53.03 points, or 0.54 percent, yesterday compared to previous day.
The volume of the shares traded yesterday reached to about 10.29 million from about 8.82 million on Wednesday and the value of shares increased to about QR330.90m from about QR300.06m on the previous day.
Indices of six sectors ended in the green and one in red territory.
QE Total Return Index gained 0.54 percent to 16,084.56 points. QE Al Rayan Islamic Index gained 0.86 percent to 3,938.21 points and QE All Share Index gained 0.45 perent to 2,778.76 points.
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