Qatar Stock Exchange's (QSE) benchmark index lost 180.38 points, 2.17 percent, last week when the bourse closed yesterday at 8,132.05 points.
Trading value during last week decreased by 33.94 percent to reach QR824.24m compared to QR1.24bn.
Trading volume decreased by 32.29 percent to reach 38.53 million shares, as against 56.91 million shares, while the number of transactions fell by 32.81 percent, to reach 10,550 transactions as compared to 15,702 transactions.
Market cap fell by 2.40 percent to reach QR443.71bn as compared to QR454.61bn at the end of previous week.
Banking and financial services sector led traded value last week with 48.14 percent of the total traded value. Industries sector accounted for 17.12 percent. Telecoms sector accounted for 14.25 percent and real estate sector accounted for 10.44 percent. Banking and financial services sector led traded volume last week with 25.71 percent of the total traded volume. Telecoms sector accounted for 24.76 percent. Industries sector accounted for 22.97 percent and Real Estate sector accounted for 17.76 percent.
Banking and financial services sector led traded number of transactions last week with 33.86 percent of the total number of transactions. Industries sector accounted for 22.45 percent. Out the 45 listed companies seven ended last week higher, while 35 fell and three unchanged. QNB led trading value during this week accounted for 26.9 percent of the total trading value. Vodafone Qatar accounted for 9.00 percent and Masraf Al Rayan accounted for 6.00 percent, reports QNA.
When compared on daily basis, the QSE index dropped 20.93 points, or 0.26 percent, yesterday. The volume of shares traded decreased to 6.64 million yesterday compared to 8.69 million on previous day.

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