Qatar Stock Exchange index closes 0.44% higher

Doha: The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) closed yesterday s trading session with a gain of 49.89 points, or 0.44 percent, reaching 11,421.38 points. Du...

Doha: The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) closed yesterday's trading session with a gain of 49.89 points, or 0.44 percent, reaching 11,421.38 points.

During the session, a total of 337,816,517 shares were traded, with a value of QAR 580,320,298.126, through 21,915 transactions across all sectors.

Shares of 35 companies rose, while 16 declined and one company maintained its previous closing.

The market capitalisation at the end of the session reached QR680,582,363,781.288, compared to QR677,981,392,872.840 in the previous session.

At the start of trading yesterday, QSE general index fell 22.04 points, or 0.19 percent, to 11,349, down from the previous session’s close.