Mubasher: The Muscat Securities Market (MSM) ended Tuesday’s session on a negative note, as the benchmark MSM 30 fell 0.1% or 5.35 points to 5,540.9 points.
The Shariah index also declined 0.14% to the level of 844.54 points.
Trading volume reached 2515 million shares exchanged at OMR 3.93 million ($20.2 million) through 1,280 transactions.
The financial and industrial sectors rose 0.07% and 0.26% respectively, as Global Financial Investment hit its highest price since June 2013, after rising 7.47% to OMR 0.191 ($0.50), and Al Hassan Engineering increased 7.25% to OMR 0.075 ($0.19), the highest since 10 December, 2015.
Meanwhile, the services sector shrank 0.41%, affected by a drop of 2.18% in Al Jazeira Services.
United Finance topped losers by falling 9.43%, while Global Financial Investment was the best performing share after adding 7.47%.
Galfar Engineering was the most traded share with a volume of 6.66 million shares exchanged at OMR 539,000 ($1.4 million).
MSM 30 closed yesterday’s trading with a rise of 0.17%, while the Shariah index plummeted 0.25%.
Translated by: Elwy el-Manzalawy
