Doha: Qatar Stock Exchange’s (QSE) benchmark index gained 196.55 points, or 1.90 percent, last week when the bourse closed yesterday at 10,515.88 points.
Trading value during last week increased by 165.95 percent to reach QR1.69bn compared to QR637m at the end of the previous week’s closing.
Trading volume increased by 434.12 percent to reach 118.35 million shares, as against 22.15 million shares, while the number of transactions rose by 174.76 percent, to reach 41,041 transactions as compared to 14,937 transactions.
Market cap rose by 1.79 percent to reach QR577.82bn as compared to QR567.68bn at the end of previous week, reports QNA.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded value last week with 45.12 percent of the total traded value. Industries sector accounted for 21.25 percent.
Consumer Goods and Services sector accounted for 15.28 percent and Real Estate sector accounted 10.97 percent.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded volume last week with 63.55 percent of the total traded volume. Real Estate sector accounted for 16.31 percent. Industries sector accounted for 11.27 percent and Consumer Goods and Services sector accounted 4.42 percent.
Real Estate sector led traded number of transactions last week with 31.01 percent of the total number of transactions. Banking and Financial Services sector accounted for 25.97 percent.
Industries sector accounted 23.82 percent and Consumer Goods and Services sector accounted for 8.92 percent. From the 46 listed companies 22 ended last week higher, while 21 fell and three remained unchanged.
QNB led trading value during last week accounted for 18.76 percent of the total traded value. Qatar Fuel accounted for 11.19 percent and Industries Qatar accounted for 8.22 percent.
When compared on daily basis the QSE index dropped 105.88 points, or 1.00 percent yesterday compared to Wednesday’s closing.
The volume of shares traded decreased to 19.97 22.15 million from 26.08 22.15 million on Wednesday and the value of shares decreased to QR328.60m from QR335.16m on Wednesday.
From the 47 companies listed on QSE, shares of 47 saw trading yesterday.
From these, 18 companies gained, 26 closed lower, while three remaining company unchanged.
Indices of six sectors ended in red zone and one sector ended green zone today. QSE Total Return Index lost 1 percent to 19,350.11 points and QSE Al Rayan Islamic Index also decreased 0.78 percent to 4,088.19 points. QSE All Share Index dropped 1.44 percent to 3,098.67 points.
