Abu Dhabi – Mubasher:  The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) saw a slide in Monday's early trading sessions, affected by the fall of three leading market sectors.

By 10:45am UAE time, the main index fell 19.03 points, or 0.42%, to 4,478.18 points.

The real estate sector led the worst performers with a 0.9% slide due to a 1.1% decline in Al Dar.

The telecom sector was dragged lower by Etisalat after they both registered a 0.5% slide.

Likewise, the banking sector went down 0.4% on First Gulf Bank that opened the session 0.8% lower.

Trading volume reached 14.49 million shares traded in 117 transactions at AED 11.02 million.