Qatar Stock Exchange’s (QSE) benchmark index lost 95.93 points, or 0.93 percent, last week when the bourse closed yesterday at 10,267.27 points.
Trading value during last week decreased by 3.39 percent to reach QR1.02bn compared to QR1.06bn.
Trading volume decreased by 19.99 percent to reach 266.52 million shares, as against 333.12 million shares, while the number of transactions fell by 11.68 percent, to reach 25,754 transactions as compared to 29,160 transactions. Market cap fell by 0.98 percent to reach QR566.76bn as compared to QR572.35bn at the end of previous week, QNA reports.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded value last week with 61.88 percent of the total traded value. Industries sector accounted for 11.52 percent. Consumer Goods and Services sector accounted for 10.95 percent and Telecoms sector accounted 6.01 percent.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded volume last week with 40.08 percent of the total traded volume.
Industries sector accounted for 22.20 percent. Real Estate sector accounted for 17.11 percent and Telecoms sector accounted 9.56 percent.
Banking and Financial Services sector led traded number of transactions last week with 46.5 percent of the total number of transactions. Industries sector accounted for 19.65 percent.
Consumer Goods and Services sector accounted for 11.31 percent and Telecoms sector accounted for 10.13 percent.
From the 46 listed companies 16 ended last week higher, while 29 fell and one remained unchanged.
QNB led trading value during last week accounted for 23.3 percent of the total trading value. Qatar International Islamic Bank (QIIB) accounted for 17.17 percent and Commercial Bank accounted 7.84 percent.
When compared on daily basis the QSE index dropped 69.41 points, or 0.67 percent, compared to Wednesday’s closing.
The volume of shares traded decreased to 47.89 million from 51.51 million on Wednesday and the value of shares decreased to QR229.12m from QR236,14m on Wednesday.
From the 49 companies listed on QSE, shares of 42 saw trading today. From these, 10 companies gained, 26 closed lower and remained 6 companies unchanged.
Indices of two sector ended in green zone and five sectors ended in red zone today. QSE Total Return Index decreased 0.67 percent to 18,892.64 points and QSE Al Rayan Islamic Index up 0.62 percent to 3,930.56 points. QSE All Share Index lost 0.63 percent to 3,029.37 points.
