Investing.com – United Arab Emirates equities were lower at the close on Sunday, as losses in the Finance & Investment, Real Estate & Construction and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Dubai, the DFM General declined 0.70%, while the ADX General index declined 0.77%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DFM General were Takaful Emarat PSC (DU:TKFE), which rose 3.54% or 0.070 points to trade at 2.050 at the close. Emirate Integrated Telecom Co PJSC (DU:DU) unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to end at 5.580 and Dubai Islamic Bank (DU:DISB) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to 6.190 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SHUAA Capital PSC (DU:SHUA), which lost 3.36% or 0.040 points to trade at 1.150 in late trade. Amlak Finance PJSC (DU:AMLK) declined 2.73% or 0.030 points to end at 1.070 and Takaful House (DU:DTKF) shed 1.90% or 0.020 points to 1.030.
The top performers on the ADX General were Rak Ceramics (AD:RKCE) which rose 5.06% to 2.490, Abu Dhabi National for Building Materials Co PJSC (AD:BILD) which was up 4.44% to settle at 0.470 and International Holding Company PJSC (AD:IHC) which gained 2.76% to close at 1.49.
The worst performers were Dana Gas (AD:DANA) which was down 6.02% to 0.780 in late trade, Eshraq Properties Co PJSC (AD:ESHR) which lost 5.95% to settle at 0.7900 and Abu Dhabi National Hotels Co (AD:ADNH) which was down 5.00% to 2.85 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 29 to 2 and 5 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi, 14 fell and 6 advanced, while 6 ended unchanged on the Dubai Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $50.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 0.07% or 0.04 to hit $55.51 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.29% or 3.88 to trade at $1325.42 a troy ounce.
USD/AED was unchanged 0.00% to 3.6730, while EUR/AED rose 0.23% to 4.3878.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 91.65.