Mubasher: The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) saw a positive performance during the week ended 19 October for the second consecutive week, amid lower trading and market losses of QAR 7.55 billion.
Over the week, the main index rose 2.04% or 169.91 points to 8172.18 points, compared to 8342.09 points last week.
Meanwhile, market capitalisation fell by 1.66% this week, recording QAR 446.2 billion, compared to QAR 453.82 billion in the previous week.
Turnover reached QAR 746.10 million, down 11.77% from QAR 845.59 million in the week earlier.
On a weekly basis, trading volume totaled 31.83 million shares, declining by 7.07 million shares from 38.90 million shares last week, as executed transactions dropped 11.24% to 11,270 transactions from 12,700 transactions.
The banks sector continued leading in terms of traded value with 48.47%, followed by industrial sector with 18.80%, real estate with 11.15% and consumer goods with 7.44%.
The banks sector also topped in terms of trading volume with 46.77%, followed by real estate, industrial and telecommunication with 18.69%, 17.20% and 6.93%, respectively.
Out of 45 companies, the stock prices of 34 companies levelled down, while six grew, and five remained unchanged.
Mannai Corporation topped the winners with an increase of 9.66%, whereas Qatari Investors group led the losers with a decline of 8.66%.
QNB was the most active in terms of traded value with 16.15%, followed by Qatar Industries with 7.55% and Al Rayan with 7.30%.
