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United Arab Emirates shares lower at close of trade; DFM General down 0.32%

Published 18/01/2018, 10:15 pm
© Reuters.  United Arab Emirates shares lower at close of trade; DFM General down 0.32%
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Investing.com – United Arab Emirates equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Consumer Staples, Banking and Transport sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Dubai, the DFM General declined 0.32%, while the ADX General index declined 0.21%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the DFM General were Takaful Emarat PSC (DU:TKFE), which rose 3.21% or 0.060 points to trade at 1.930 at the close. Amanat Holdings PJSC (DU:AMANT) added 2.16% or 0.030 points to end at 1.420 and Gulf General Investments Company (DU:GGIC) was up 2.04% or 0.008 points to 0.400 in late trade.

Biggest losers included DXB Entertainments (P.J.S.C.) (DU:DXBE), which lost 3.29% or 0.022 points to trade at 0.647 in late trade. Takaful House (DU:DTKF) declined 2.31% or 0.022 points to end at 0.932 and Amlak Finance PJSC (DU:AMLK) shed 1.89% or 0.020 points to 1.040.

The top performers on the ADX General were Union Cement (AD:UCC) which rose 10.67% to 1.660, Arkan Building Materials Co PJSC (AD:ARKN) which was up 4.00% to settle at 0.7800 and Eshraq Properties Co PJSC (AD:ESHR) which gained 2.63% to close at 0.7800.

The worst performers were Nat Bk Qaiwain (AD:NBQ) which was down 10.00% to 2.70 in late trade, Abu Dhabi National for Building Materials Co PJSC (AD:BILD) which lost 4.92% to settle at 0.580 and Al Khazna Ins (AD:AKIC) which was down 3.45% to 0.280 at the close.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 20 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi, 13 fell and 13 advanced, while 5 ended unchanged on the Dubai Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.02% or 0.01 to $63.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.03% or 0.02 to hit $69.36 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.66% or 8.90 to trade at $1330.30 a troy ounce.

USD/AED was unchanged 0.00% to 3.6729, while EUR/AED rose 0.43% to 4.4934.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 90.40.

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