Saturday, March 23, 2013

Consumer goods, industrials and telecom lead buy interest


The Qatar Exchange (QE) remained in the positive trajectory in the week on buying interests, especially in consumer goods, industrials and telecom; but put up a shoddy performance vis-à-vis other bourses in the Gulf region year-to-date (YTD).

Local retail investors’ lower net selling was mainly instrumental in lifting the 20-stock Qatar Index by 0.25% in the week that saw Kuwait gain 1.23%, Muscat (0.43%) and Saudi Arabia (0.27%); while Abu Dhabi fell 1.15%, Bahrain (0.74%) and Dubai (0.33%).

The Total Return Index shot up 1.34% but Al Rayan Islamic Index fell 0.11% in the week that saw the bourse announce that there will no changes to the companies represented in the QE and Al Rayan Islamic indices; even as Ahlibank did not qualify to be included in the All Share Index.

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