Mubasher: The Qatar stock exchange (QSE) ended Sunday’s trading session in negative territory, pressured by the sectors’ massive drop.
The general index fell 37.33 points, or 0.38%, to finish at 9,824.20 points.
The bourse’s liquidity slid to QAR 78.31 million on Sunday from QAR 1.10 billion on Thursday, while the trading volume levelled down to 2.32 million shares against 5.73 million in the previous session.
The banking sector topped the QSE’s losers falling 0.60% as Qatar National Leasing and the heavyweight Qatar National Bank (QNB) declined 2.9% and 1.06%, respectively.
Similarly, the goods and services sector plunged 0.30% due to Zad Holding Group’s 1.97% drop, while the industrial sector inched down 0.19% as Qatar Industrial Manufacturing went down 1.96%.
By the end of the session, QNB’s stock led the QSE in terms of liquidity with QAR 10.3 million, while Gulf International Services’ stock, which decreased 1.05%, spearheaded the market in terms of trading volume with 380,300 shares.
