Qatar stock exchange up 0.21%

Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Wednesday adding 21.07 points (0.21%)  to advance to 10,065.20 points from 10,044.13 on Tuesday. The volume of the shares traded up to 12,169,730 from 8,555,327 on Tuesday and the value of shares increased to QR408,666,515.96 from QR337,101,424.22 Tuesday.  Among the top gainers were Qatar Islamic Bank which was up 3.74% to QR72.10 , International Islamic Bank gained 1.06% to QR57.00, Al khalij Commercial Bank gained 5.37% to QR19.24 and Qatar Navigation up by 2.25% to QR81.90. The Banking and Financial sector index was added 0.54 points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index up 0.05 points. The industrial sector was dropped 0.18 points while insurance sector lost 0.81 points.