The Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend Tuesday adding 20.00 points or 0.24% to 8,501.68 points from 8,481.68 Monday. The volume of shares traded down to 3,305,654 from 3,819,623 on Monday and the value of shares fell to QR125,942,590.21 from QR168,555,124.70 Monday. Top gainers were Qatar Islamic Bank which was up 1.52% to QR80.00, Intl. Islamic Bank by 1.48% to QR48.00, Electricity & Water up by 1.05% to QR144.40, Mazaya by 1.70% to QR8.96 and Qatar Oman by 0.71% to QR8.56. Today the Qatar Banking and Financial sector gained 30.61 while the Insurance sector lost 60.51 points. The Qatar industrial sector rose 12.95 points and the Services sector added 20.07 points.