Mubasher: The Muscat Securities Market (MSM) ended Tuesday’s trading in the red zone as its benchmark MSM 30 fell by 1.08% or 61.44 points to the level of 5,613.26 points.
The fall was due to the decrease in most of blue chips as Renaissance Services slid 4.35%, Bank Sohar retreated 4.19% and Ooredoo Oman shrank 2.91%.
Trading volume increased to 18.93 million shares from 9.625 million shares exchanged on Monday, turnover also rose to OMR 5.74 million from OMR 2.69 million.
The financial, services and industrial sectors fell collectively by 0.9%, 0.74% and 0.27% respectively.
Bank Muscat made the biggest trading activity with a volume of 4.95 million shares exchanged at OMR 2.02 million.