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Qatar market gains 0.67%, as real estate firms edge higher
September 07, 2011--The Qatar Exchange (QE) Index closed at 8,398.28, up 0.67% on Wednesday. Qatar's largest real estate developers United Development Company (UDC) and Barwa Real Estate gained 0.35% and half a percent, respectively.
Earlier in the day, Kuwait-based Global Investment House, "Activity in the Qatari property sales market is still muted due to the large disparity between buyer’s expectations and sellers quoted prices. In the office market, with new projects being delivered, the amount of office space in the market remains abundant and is unmet by the existent demand."
Source: AME Info
Methaq Takaful cracks key resistance level
September 07, 2011--The Abu Dhabi-based exchange ADX declined by 0.15% and closed at 2,601.02 points. The emirate's largest real estate developer Aldar Properties ended 0.82% higher at Dhs1.23.
Islamic insurance company Methaq Takaful was the most liquid stock and jumped two percent, reaching Dhs1.52. With today's move Methaq Takaful has crossed a long-term resistance level at Dhs1.50. Trading volumes remained very low as some 38.3m shares were traded, valued at Dhs58.2m.
Source: AME Info
Foreign banks continue to dominate Dubai market
September 07, 2011--The DFM General Index added 0.20%, closing at 1,487.98 points. Emaar as the most liquid share closed 0.35% higher at Dhs2.85. Islamic home financing company Tamweel ended up 3.52% at Dhs0.824.
But Wednesday's trading session was again dominated by Kuwaiti banks: Global Investment House (up 12.80% at Dhs0.62) posted the largest advance, while Bahrain's Gulf Finance House, a 100% Shari'ah-compliant investment bank, added 2.88%, finishing at Dhs0.535. Gary Dugan, CIO Private Banking at bank Emirates NBD notes in his latest commentary, that since Eid, "The MENA equity and bond markets have to date been less volatile than their developed market counterparts." He concludes, however, that "The acid test however is likely to come through the next couple of months as the impact of the global slowdown is felt more widely. In Dubai it will be interesting to see whether the hospitality sector continues trade strongly through the late October holiday season."
Source: AME Info
Tadawul market loses half a percent
September 06, 2011--The TASI benchmark closed at 6,061.53, off 0.48%. Sabic ended 0.54% lower at SR92.75. Insurers were again the winners
of the day, with Islamic insurer SABB Takaful gaining 4.18% to reach SR16.20. Forty-five stocks gained, 79 lost and 21 ended even.
Source: AME Info
Kuwait market continues to gain ground
September 06, 2011--The KSE Market Index ended 0.14% higher at 5,860.9 points. In a lacklustre session, banks mostly gained, while other sector indexes did not post big movements. According to Global Investment House,
whose shares surged 7.5% to KD0.0355, "in the GCC, all bourses ended the month of August 2011 on a lower note, led by the Saudi market, which shed 6.46 percent of its value by the end of the month. Kuwait Stock Exchange followed, down by 3.97 percent as measured by KSE Price index, while market cap weighted, Global General index (GGI), retreated by 3.12 percent by the end of the month."
Source: AME Info
Gulf Finance House shares help Bahrain Bourse to stabilise
September 06, 2011--The Bahrain Bourse closed unchanged at 1,261.04 points. Islamic investment house Gulf Finance House, known as GFH, surged 8.33% to reach $0.130, while Bahrain Family Leisure Co. dived 4.76% to BD0.100. Two days ago, GFH has reported a half year net profit of $0.7m for the period ending 30 June, 2011, as compared to a loss of $47.6m for the same period in 2010.
The Bank did however report a loss in the second quarter of this year amounting to $11.23m, as compared to a net loss of $40.2m for the same period in 2010.
Source: AME Info
Etisalat shares keep Abu Dhabi bourse in the green
September 6, 2011--The ADX General Index added 0.07% and finished Tuesday's trading at 2,604.85 points. While tradig remained dull at Aldar Properties (down 0.81% at Dhs1.23) and Sorouh Real Estate (off 0.84% at Dhs1.18), market bellwether Etisalat
(up half a percent at Dhs10.20) kept the ADX in the green. Like in Dubai, some 59.4m shares were traded, valued at Dhs88.64m. Ten shares advanced, eight dipped and nine closed even.
Source: AME Info
Dubai bourse swings into recovery mood
September 6, 2011--The DFM General Index added 0.42%, closing at 1,485.02 points. Although European bank shares suffer heavy losses these day, shares of bank Emirates NBD, the UAE's largest lender by assets, advanced 1.41% to reach Dhs4.31, while Dubai Islamic Bank closed half a percent higher at Dhs2.01.
But Shuaa Capital retreated 2.94% to Dhs0.89. Trading volumes decreased slightly as some 57m share were traded, valued at Dhs66m.
Source: AME Info
DGCX Sets New Monthly Volume Record of Over Half a Million Contracts in August
September 6, 2011-Exchange trades 548,566 contracts valued at $ 27.83 billion, a rise of 393% from 2010
Currency futures trade all-time monthly high of 511,279 contracts, up 561% from last year
DGCX achieves several volume records in August
The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) saw a significant rise in trading activity in the month of August, with the Exchange breaking volume records in four products, in addition to setting all-time monthly and daily average volume records.
Source: The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX)
European market woes pull Tadawul bourse lower
September 5, 2011--The Riyadh-based benchmark index Tasi fell one percent, closing at 6,090.54 points, as only 21 out of 145 traded stock gained. Fresh fears over a new financial crisis, expressed by Germany's Deutsche Bank CEO Joe
Ackermann on Monday, weighed on all GCC exchanges. Market leader Sabic dipped 1.32% to SR93.25. Saudi Arabia Refineries Co., known as SARCO, gained the most with a plus of 9.84%.
Source: AME Info
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