By KUNA
Kuwait : Trade at the national stock market of Kuwait showed moderate performance ahead of the upcoming Eid Al-Adha, with the index posting a drop of 18.2 points at start of Monday’s session.
That brought the level of points to 12,269.6, while the volume of the exchanged shares amounted to 10 million, at a value of 6.4 million dinars, for 261 spot dealings.
The Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) wrapped up Sunday’s trading session with an up of 48.1 points in the price index to read 12,287.8 points. The weighted index came to 702.15 points, an up of 1.58 points.
Yesterday’s session saw 5, 744 trades worth KD 112,864,580 with 239,811,000 shares changing hands. Seven out of eight sector indices were also up with biggest hike of 87.7 points seen in the investment sector.
As for share performance, leading high shares was the Equipment Holding Company, with an up of 6.6 percent, while worst blow was a fall of 9 percent in the Munshaat Real Estate Projects Company.