370 million dirhams, local money market transactions

The local financial markets witnessed limited trading today, in the first session of the week, with a total value of 370 million dirhams, with a variation in the closing of indices, as the Dubai Financial Market index decreased slightly, while the Abu Dhabi Securities Market index rose by a small percentage as well.

And the Dubai market index closed down by 0.3% at 2,245 points, with trades amounting to 132 million dirhams.

Of the 33 companies whose shares were traded today, shares of 19 companies rose, while the shares of 12 companies declined, and two remained steady.

The most heavily traded stock was Ithmar, which continued to rise by a maximum of 15% and closed at 0.36 dirhams, with a turnover of 74 million shares.

On the Abu Dhabi market, the general index closed, up 0.4% at 4486 points, with trades amounting to a total of 238 million dirhams.

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