Qatar Stock Exchange Drops 0.57 Percent This Week

Doha, February 10 (QNA) - Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index dropped 73.58 points, 0.57 percent, this week to close Thursday afternoon at 12,735.35 points. Trading value during this week accounted QR 3,392,742,926.041 and the trading volume reached 1,012,654,053 with 74,362 transactions. Market capitalization accounted QR 723,301,980,422.530 as compared to QR 717,044,948,092.100 at the end of previous week. Banking and Financial Services sector decreased 11.93 points, 0.23 percent, to 5,276.91 points and Consumer Goods and Services sector dropped 39.02 points, 0.45 percent, to 8,694.11 points. Industries sector decreased to 25.09 points, 0.53 percent, to 4,671.45 and the Insurance sector lost 68.41 points, 2.55 percent, to 2,611.77 points. The Real Estate sector added 1.49 points 0.08 percent, to 1,913.81 points. The Telecom sector up 18.48 points 1.65 percent, to 1,137.53 points and Transportation sector gained14 points, 0.37 percent, to 3,838.04 points. From the listed companies 29 ended this week lower, 17 companies ended in higher and remained 1 company unchanged. (QNA)