Mubasher: The Muscat Securities Market’s (MSM) main index continued its negative performance in Monday, as it shrank 0.169% or 95 points to 5,547.8 points.
Sharia Index also declined 1% or 9 points to the level of 872.7 points.
Trading volume came to 20.7 million shares exchanged in 1,044 trades, making a trading value of about OMR 4.690 million.
The services, financial and industrial sectors all fell by 0.74%, 1.98% and 1%, respectively.
Only one share, out of 28 companies, closed higher, while 22 others moved down, and the remaining five were flat.
United Power topped the gainers with a growth of 9.8%, while Al Jazeira Services led the losers with about 6.5% decline.
Muscat Bank topped trading volumes and values with about 1.9 million shares changed hands at liquidity of OMR 986.2 million.