KSE indexes mixed in early trading

Indexes of Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) were mixed in early trading on Monday with the price index putting on 6.6 points reaching 6,183.7 points and weighted index falling 0.15 points dropping to the level of 413.71 points. Number of trades amounted to 812, value of the traded shares 5,833,580 and volume of exchanged stocks 73,652,500. Summing up the past week operations, an economic report released on Thursday said the price index went up by 0.71 percent to 6,177.1 points, while the weighted index settled at 413.8 points, up by 0.8 percent from the previous week. The market witnessed slight improvement with the turnover for this week growing by one percent, and average daily turnover hitting KD 49.9 million, compared to KD 49.5 in the previous week. Meanwhile, 3.175 billion shares were traded, valued at KD 277 million, said Kuwait Financial Center SAK (Markaz) in its weekly market report. The services and investment sectors mostly attracted financial liquidity this week with 27.9 percent and 23.5 percent consecutively, the report said, adding that Abyar Real Estate Development Company acquired 4.8 percent of daily value this week, amounts for KD 13.3 million, followed by 4.1 percent, which amounts to KD 11.3 million, acquired by Zain telecom.