Mubasher: The Muscat Securities Market’s (MSM) main index, MSM 30, rose in April’s first week by 2.6% or 142.28 points to the level of 5,609.70 points, compared to a fall of 1.2% or 66.16 points to 5,467.42 points last week.
The Shariah index also advanced 1.51% or 12.63 points to the level of 851.64 points, against 839.01 points last week.
Trading volume increased 11.99% to 144.56 million shares, versus 129.08 million shares exchanged a week ago. Turnover also rose 12.9% to OMR 24.8 million ($64.41 million) from OMR 21.9 million ($56.88 million).
The financial, industrial and services sectors leapt collectively by 3.65%, 1.68% and 1.14% respectively.
Port Services Corporation was the week’s best performer with a growth of 21.67 %, while Global Financial Investment was the worst after falling 32.62%.
Al Anwar Holding was the most active stock with a trading volume of 25.35 million exchanged at OMR 5.44 million ($14.13 million).
Translated by: Elwy el-Manzalawy
