Mubasher: The Muscat Securities Market (MSM) was down in the week ended 22 August.
The general index shed 0.2% or 11.52 points to close at 5,766.14 points.
Sales of the foreign investors reached OMR 466,050, Arab’s sales reached OMR 13,490, while the Omani and Gulf investors tended to purchases by OMR 389,92 and OMR 89,630, respectively.
Market value grew 0.23% by OMR 40.03 million to reach OMR 17.32 billion.
The industrial and services sectors went down 0.5% and 0.32%, respectively, while the financial sector went up 0.15%.
Oman Education topped losers decreasing 6.88%, followed by National Finance and Taageer Finance which were down 5.07% and 5.04%, respectively.
On the other hand, Port Services Corporation led gainers advancing 20.91%, followed by United Finance and Al Jazeira Services which increased 6.67% and 4.08%, respectively.
Oman Fisheries was the most active in terms of traded volume after 6.08 million shares were traded, while Bank Muscat was the most active in terms of turnover of OMR 2.26 million.
Traded volume grew 15.62% week-on-week to 52.57 million shares, while turnover rose 6.2% to OMR 11.81 million.
