Investing.com – United Arab Emirates equities were mixed at the close on Monday, as gains in the Finance & Investment, Transport and Services sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Telecoms, Banking and Insurance sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Dubai, the DFM General gained 0.74%, while the ADX General index lost 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DFM General were Gulf General Investments Company (DU:GGIC), which rose 5.44% or 0.019 points to trade at 0.368 at the close. Dubai Financial Market PJSC (DU:DFM) added 4.81% or 0.050 points to end at 1.090 and ARAMEX PJSC (DU:ARMX) was up 3.87% or 0.190 points to 5.100 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AJMAN BANK PJSC (DU:AJBNK), which lost 2.50% or 0.030 points to trade at 1.170 in late trade. National Central Cooling Co. (DU:TABR) declined 2.08% or 0.040 points to end at 1.880 and Emirates NBD PJSC (DU:ENBD) shed 1.84% or 0.150 points to 8.000.
The top performers on the ADX General were Agthia Group (AD:AGTH) which rose 6.59% to 5.50, Sharjah Islami (AD:SIB) which was up 5.34% to settle at 1.380 and Rak Properties (AD:RPRO) which gained 3.57% to close at 0.580.
The worst performers were Bank Of Sharja (AD:BOS) which was down 6.20% to 1.210 in late trade, Int Fish Farmi (AD:ASMK) which lost 2.78% to settle at 1.40 and Methaq (AD:METH) which was down 2.56% to 0.760 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 27 to 8 and 1 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi, 11 fell and 8 advanced, while 7 ended unchanged on the Dubai Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.32% or 0.16 to $49.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.29% or 0.15 to hit $52.36 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.10% or 1.31 to trade at $1266.79 a troy ounce.
USD/AED was unchanged 0.00% to 3.6730, while EUR/AED rose 0.07% to 4.1087.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 97.27.