Investing.com – United Arab Emirates equities were mixed at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate & Construction, Services and Banking sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Transport, Consumer Staples and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Dubai, the DFM General gained 0.35%, while the ADX General index lost 0.46%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DFM General were Takaful Emarat PSC (DU:TKFE), which rose 5.98% or 0.110 points to trade at 1.950 at the close. Emaar Properties PJSC (DU:EMAR) added 2.25% or 0.140 points to end at 6.370 and Dubai Financial Market PJSC (DU:DFM) was up 1.60% or 0.020 points to 1.270 in late trade.
Biggest losers included National Cement Company P.S.C. (DU:NCC), which lost 9.91% or 0.330 points to trade at 3.000 in late trade. Gulf General Investments Company (DU:GGIC) declined 3.06% or 0.019 points to end at 0.601 and Drake & Scull International PJSC (DU:DSI) shed 2.19% or 0.012 points to 0.535.
The top performers on the ADX General were Green Crs Ins (AD:GCIC) which rose 12.82% to 0.880, Rak Properties (AD:RPRO) which was up 1.67% to settle at 0.610 and Eshraq Properties Co PJSC (AD:ESHR) which gained 1.30% to close at 0.7800.
The worst performers were National Corp Tourism Hotels (AD:NCTH) which was down 9.82% to 4.50 in late trade, Fujairah Building Industries Co PSC (AD:FBI) which lost 5.00% to settle at 1.14 and Abu Dhabi National for Building Materials Co PJSC (AD:BILD) which was down 2.13% to 0.460 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 11 and 3 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi, 14 fell and 9 advanced, while 7 ended unchanged on the Dubai Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.02% or 0.01 to $47.73 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.37% or 0.18 to hit $48.79 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.00% or 0.05 to trade at $1274.15 a troy ounce.
USD/AED was up 0.00% to 3.6731, while EUR/AED rose 0.00% to 4.1594.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.02% at 94.55.