Mubasher: The indices of Boursa Kuwait started Wednesday’s trading session in the red zone in line with the fall of seven segments led by banks.
By 9:50am Kuwait time, the benchmark price index retreated 0.42% or 26.19 points to reach 6,187.93 points.
Both the weighted and Kuwait-15 indices lost 0.62% and 0.81%, respectively.
Boursa Kuwait’s turnover amounted to KWD 5.3 million after 20.8 million shares were exchanged through 1,000 transactions.
The banks segment led seven decliners with 1.15%, dragged by the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) which lost 4.37%.
The oil and gas sector went down 0.3%, in line with the 3% decline of PetroGulf.
Meanwhile, the real estate segment topped three gainers with 0.27%, backed by First Dubai which gained 11.25% to be the top winner.
Kuwait Finance House (KFH) was the most active stock on which 4.05 million shares were traded at a value of KWD 2.26 million, falling 1.06%.
