Qatar stock exchange up 0.89%

Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Monday adding 97.50 points (0.89%) to advance to 11,019.86 points from 10,922.36 on Sunday. The volume of the shares traded up to 17,438,223 from 6,908,319 on Sunday and the value of shares increased to QR826,032,608.58 from QR349,347,173.60 Sunday. Among the top gainers were Qatar National Bank which was up 1.30% to QR179.00, Doha Bank gained 1.76% to QR63.60, Masraf al Rayan added 3.11% to QR34.80 and Gulf International up by 2.08% to QR68.80. The Banking and Financial sector index was added 1.25 points while Consumer Goods and Services sector index up 0.01 points. The industrial sector was gained 0.73 points while insurance sector rose 1.17 points.