Investing.com – United Arab Emirates equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Consumer Staples, Finance & Investment and Real Estate & Construction sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Dubai, the DFM General lost 0.50%, while the ADX General index lost 0.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DFM General were Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC (DU:GNAV), which rose 5.26% or 0.070 points to trade at 1.400 at the close. Takaful Emarat PSC (DU:TKFE) added 3.67% or 0.080 points to end at 2.260 and Takaful House (DU:DTKF) was up 1.92% or 0.020 points to 1.060 in late trade.
Biggest losers included DXB Entertainments (P.J.S.C.) (DU:DXBE), which lost 4.32% or 0.037 points to trade at 0.820 in late trade. Drake & Scull International PJSC (DU:DSI) declined 2.73% or 0.010 points to end at 0.356 and Gulf General Investments Company (DU:GGIC) shed 2.22% or 0.009 points to 0.396.
The top performers on the ADX General were Abu Dhabi National for Building Materials Co PJSC (AD:BILD) which rose 13.46% to 0.590, Gulf Medical Projects Co PSC (AD:GMPC) which was up 4.35% to settle at 4.80 and Arkan Building Materials Co PJSC (AD:ARKN) which gained 1.49% to close at 0.6800.
The worst performers were Ad Natl Energy (AD:TAQA) which was down 5.00% to 0.570 in late trade, Rak Cement Co (AD:RKCC) which lost 3.61% to settle at 0.800 and Eshraq Properties Co PJSC (AD:ESHR) which was down 2.73% to 1.0700 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 9 and 4 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi, 11 fell and 6 advanced, while 5 ended unchanged on the Dubai Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 1.63% or 0.80 to $48.27 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 1.65% or 0.86 to hit $51.35 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.33% or 4.12 to trade at $1262.82 a troy ounce.
USD/AED was up 0.01% to 3.6732, while EUR/AED fell 0.22% to 4.0899.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 97.39.