DOHA: Banks, finance and industries indices Tuesday propelled Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index by 187.49 points, or 1.56 percent, to 12,201.02 points when the bourse closed trading. With the gain in these stocks, the market capitalisation increased by over QR11.01bn to QR648.74bn from QR637.73bn registered Monday.
The traded value of banks and financial companies shares jumped to QR 204.01 Million with a volume of 2.485 million shares from 1,196 transactions.
The traded value of industries shares jumped to QR134.48m with a volume of 1.619 million shares from 1,180 transactions.
QSE's traded value jumped 138.77 percent and the number of shares and transactions more than doubled today.
The traded value increased to QR518.357m with a volume of 9,565,490 shares from 4,539 transactions compared with QR217.08 with a volume of 4,797,826 shares from 2,274 transactions registered Monday.
Barring transport index, which declined 0.21 percent to 2,450.49 points, all other indices made good upward movement today.
Banks and financial services index jumped 2.20 percent to 3,205.69 points, industries 1.53 percent to 3,973.21 points while telecoms gained 1.4 percent to 1,175.87 points.
Real estate index made fair gains, up 0.78 percent to 2,776.83 points, insurance was up 1.4 percent to 1,175 points and consumer goods and services up 0.03 percent to 7,369.7 points.
QSE Total Return Index increased 1.56 percent (18,961.01 points), QSE Al Rayan Islamic Index gained 0.89 percent (4,725.93 points) while QSE All Share Index was up 1.41 percent (3,256.01 points).
From the 43 companies listed on QSE, shares of 40 saw trading today. From these 19 advanced, 15 declined and six remained unchanged.
QNA
