Qatar stock exchange up 0.8%

Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Wednesday adding 91.35 points (0.80%) to advance to 11,452.97 points previous closing of 11,361.62The volume of the shares traded fell to 17,710,211 from 19,697,807 on last day and the value of shares increased to QR792,313,124.11 from QR774,811,214.06 last trading day.Among the top gainers were Qatar National Bank which was up 1.57% to QR188.00, Commercial Bank of Qatar gained 2.29% to QR71.60, Qatar Islamic Bank added 1.02% to QR79.40 and Masraf al Rayan up by 2.70% to QR39.95.The Banking and Financial sector index was added 1.48 points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index up 4.60 points. The industrial sector was lost 0.13 points while insurance sector gained 0.40 points.