Doha: The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index broke the 10,000-point barrier at the beginning of yesterday’s trading with the return of activity after the Eid Al Fitr holiday to rise by 1.16 percent and add 115.31 points to reach 10,045 points.
QSE figures attributed the recorded rise to the positive performance of the transport sector by 1.61 percent, the banking and financial services sector by 1.53 percent, the consumer goods and services sector by 1.42 percent, the industrial sector by 0.50 percent, the communications sector by 0.49 percent, and the real estate sector by 0.39 percent.
The insurance sector performed negatively by 0.33 percent.
At around 10:00 am, the QSE recorded transactions worth QR 77.389m distributed over 27.248m shares, with the implementation of 3,836 deals.
The QSE index rose by 142.23 points or 1.43 percent to close trading at 10,72.56 points.
A total of 162,671,119 shares were traded in yesterday’s session with a value of QR485, 263,759.901 as a result of 21072 deals in all sectors.
The shares of 34 companies increased, but the prices of another 11 companies declined. Two companies maintained the same previous closing prices.
