Dubai – Mubasher: The benchmark index of the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) went up by 0.84% or 18.64 points to end Tuesday's trading session at 2,224.61 points, maintaining its positive performance on Monday, 17 August.
A total of 325.1 million shares were traded through 5,596 transactions at a total value of AED 364.04 million.
The market cap value increased by around AED 1.42 billion to AED 310.47 billion, compared to AED 309.05 billion during the previous session.
The real estate sector led the risers with 1.91%, while the consumer staples segment remained unchanged.
Dubai Refreshments headed the green zone with 5.2%, while Arabtec Holding came on top of the red zone with 4.93%.
Union Properties posted the highest trading volume of 138.58 million shares, while Emaar Properties, up 3.6%, recorded the highest turnover of AED 83.03 million.
Damac Properties topped the losing blue chips with 0.72%.
