Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Wednesday adding 21.93 points (0.19%) to advance to 11,331.46 points from 11,309.53 on Tuesday.The volume of the shares traded up to 16,732,413 from 15,656,428 on Tuesday and the value of shares increased to QR716,879,112.60 from QR642,170,175.46 Tuesday.Among the top gainers were Qatar Islamic Bank which was up 0.83% to QR73.00, General Insurance gained 3.63% to QR41.45, Vodafone Qatar added 0.08% to QR11.96 and Barwa Real Estate up by 1.54% to QR36.30.The Banking and Financial sector index was rose 0.17 points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index lost 0.21 points. The industrial sector was added 0.33 points while insurance sector down 0.12 points.