Mubasher: The Muscat Securities Market (MSM) ended Wednesday’s session in the green territory as the benchmark MSM 30 advanced 0.08% or 4.55 points to 5,574.52 points.
Meanwhile, the Shariah index declined 0.01% or 0.06 point to the level of 846.05 points.
Trading volume reached 23.57 million shares which were exchanged at OMR 5.06 million ($13.14 million) through 1,380 trades.
The financial sector grew 0.54%, backed by Oman Investment and Finance and Ominvest as they rose 6.8% and 6.58% respectively, while Global Financial Investment topped losers with a fall of 9.8%.
The industrial sector rose 0.02% as Al Maha Ceramics rose 4.28%.
The services sector dropped 0.06% as Sembcorp Salalah Power and Water fell 2.58%, while Port Services Corp increased 8.72% to top today’s gainers.
Al Anwar Holdings was the largest-traded stock with a volume of 6.41 million shares, while Bank Muscat made the highest liquidity with OMR 1.45 million ($3.77 million).
MSM 30 went up yesterday by 0.41% or 22.9 points to 5,585.78 points.
Translated by: Elwy el-Manzalawy
