Qatar stock exchange up 1.13%

Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Monday adding 120.33 points (1.13%) to advance to 10,784.49 points from 10,664.16 on Sunday. The volume of the shares traded up to 17,021,858 from 13,077,213 on Sunday and the value of shares decreased to QR770,414,333.28 from QR900,467,610.60 Sunday. Among the top gainers were Commercial Bank of Qatar which was up 2.10% to QR72.80, Qatar Islamic Bank gained 2.55% to QR72.30, Qatar Insurance added 5.26% to QR72.10 and Doha Bank up by 2.50% to QR61.50. The Banking and Financial sector index was added 0.82 points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index up 0.92 points. The industrial sector was gained 0.63 points while insurance sector rose 4.05 points.