DOHA: The Qatar Exchange in the green area Wednesday adding 8.23 points (or 0.10 percent) to advance to 8,578.37 points from 8,570.14 Tuesday.
The volume of the shares traded fell to 2,992,836 from 5,636,569 on Tuesday, and the value of shares decreased to QR140,362,435.88 from QR317,128,950.72 Tuesday.
Among the top gainers were Industries Qatar which was up 1.04 percent to QR156.00, Qatar Insurance rose 0.98 percent to QR51.50, Qatar Navigation gained 1.06 percent to QR67.00 and National Leasing up by 0.70 percent to Q35.75.
The Banking and Financial sector index was fell 0.17 points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index added 0.03 points. The industrial sector was gained 0.46 points while insurance sector rose 0.63 points. (QNA)
