Investing.com – United Arab Emirates equities were mixed at the close on Monday, as gains in the Services, Consumer Staples and Insurance sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Finance & Investment, Telecoms and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Dubai, the DFM General added 0.09%, while the ADX General index lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DFM General were National Central Cooling Co. (DU:TABR), which rose 5.17% or 0.090 points to trade at 1.830 at the close. Takaful Emarat PSC (DU:TKFE) added 4.48% or 0.120 points to end at 2.800 and SHUAA Capital PSC (DU:SHUA) was up 2.50% or 0.030 points to 1.230 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC (DU:GNAV), which lost 1.59% or 0.020 points to trade at 1.240 in late trade. Dubai Islamic Insurance Co. (DU:AMAN) declined 1.57% or 0.008 points to end at 0.500 and Gulf General Investments Company (DU:GGIC) shed 1.08% or 0.005 points to 0.460.
The top performers on the ADX General were Eshraq Properties Co PJSC (AD:ESHR) which rose 15.00% to 0.9200, Gulf Pharm Ind (AD:GPHI) which was up 5.29% to settle at 2.190 and Methaq (AD:METH) which gained 3.95% to close at 0.790.
The worst performers were Arkan Building Materials Co PJSC (AD:ARKN) which was down 7.22% to 0.9000 in late trade, Dana Gas (AD:DANA) which lost 1.89% to settle at 0.520 and Ad Commercial (AD:ADCB) which was down 1.00% to 5.93 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 13 and 6 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi, 12 rose and 8 declined, while 7 ended unchanged on the Dubai Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 1.66% or 0.73 to $44.80 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.34% or 0.61 to hit $46.19 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 1.30% or 16.95 to trade at $1287.55 a troy ounce.
USD/AED was unchanged 0.00% to 3.6730, while EUR/AED fell 0.64% to 4.0645.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.71% at 97.63.