Amman bourse benchmark ends week unchanged

Benchmark of Amman Stock Exchange ended the past week trading unchanged, according to figures of the bourse on Friday. Benchmark for the week closing dropped to 2088.9 points, compared with 2089. 9 points of the previous week, a decrease of 0.05 percent. As to sectors, the main index of the financial sector dropped 0.48 percent, the services decreased 0.25 percent, and the industries lost 0.57 percent. Volume of daily trading amounted to approximately USD 26 million, compared with USD 38.4 million the week before; with a cut proportion of 32.3 percent. Overall volume of trades of the week stood at some USD 130.2 million, in contrast with USD 192.2 million the week before. Number of traded shares reached 90.4 million, done through 35,397 deals. As to sectors' contributions in volume of trade, financial sector came first, 74 percent of the overall trade, followed by services, 14.9 percent, and lastly the industries, 11 percent. Comparing prices of closing of trading companies, amounting to 176, with previous closing, stock price of 70 ones rose and those of 68 others dropped.