Doha – Mubasher: The benchmark of Qatar Stock Exchange (QE) closed Sunday’s session in the red territory as it lost 0.65% or 63.05 points to 9,620.57 points.
QE Al Rayan Islamic Index dropped by 0.53% to 3,417.1 points. QE All Share Index also fell by 0.64% to 2,563.27 points.
Trading volume decreased by 32.1% to 6.82 million shares from 10.4 million shares. Similarly, trading value was 29.1% lower to QAR215.83 million from QAR304.53 million.
Sector-wise, transportation, industrials, banks, and insurance tumbled by 1.70%, 1.25%, 0.79%, and 0.03% correspondingly. Meanwhile, the positive side was headed by telecoms with a rise of 0.71%, followed by consumer goods and services (+0.46%) and real estate (+0.02%).
Tracking stock performance, the best gainer was Qatari Investors Group with 3.69% growth, while Gulf Warehousing was the biggest drag with a fall of 6.22%
Gulf International Services was the most active stock, upon executing 610 transactions on 1.76 million shares worth QAR60.97 million.