DOHA: Qatar Exchange index lost 101.90 points, or 1.02 percent, during the past trading week when the bourse closed yesterday at 9,912.92 points.
Trading value during the week decreased by 10.46 percent to reach QR1.29bn compared to QR1.44bn at the end of previous week. Trading volume decreased by 7.07 percent to reach 31,542,279 shares, as against 33,943,756 shares, while the number of transactions fell by 6.60 percent, to reach 18,850 transactions as compared to 20,181 transactions.
Market capitalisation fell by 0.7 percent to reach QR525.09bn as compared to QR528.78bn at the end of previous week.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded value this with 45.08 percent of the total traded value. Industries sector accounted for 25.96 percent. Real Estate sector accounted for 9.73 percent and Telecoms sector accounted for 6.89 percent, reported QNA.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded volume with 41.22 percent of the total traded volume. Real Estate sector accounted for 17.27 percent. Industries sector accounted for 16.72 percent and Telecoms sector accounted 12.37 percent.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded number of transactions with 31.81 percent of the total number of transactions. Industries sector accounted for 21.57 percent. Telecoms sector accounted for 16.13 percent and Real Estate sector accounted for 13.77 percent.
Masraf Al Rayan led trading value during the week accounted for 22.31 percent of the total trading value. Industries Qatar accounted for 11.72 percent and Gulf International Services accounted for 10.05 percent. Qatar Exchange index gained 50.89 points, or 0.52 percent, yesterday.
Elsewhere, most Middle East markets rallied after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in more than nine years, a sign of confidence in the world’s largest economy. The Saudi index rose 2.6 percent to 7,046 points, taking its gains to 5.4 percent since Monday’s three-year low. Dubai’s index climbed 2.9 percent, rising for a fourth session since Sunday’s two-year low to trim its 2015 losses to 18.6 percent.
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