Emirates News Agency – Local stock gains surpass AED14.2 billion at start of week

ABU DHABI, December 19th / WAM / Local stock markets consolidated their gains at the close of today’s trading and their market capitalization stood at over AED 14.2 billion.
The market capital of listed shares rose from 3.228 trillion dirhams at the end of last Friday’s session to 3.243 trillion dirhams at the end of today’s session, distributed from 2.663 trillion dirhams for shares listed on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange and 579, 75 billion dirhams for shares listed on the Dubai financial market.
Local shares have attracted more than 1.44 billion dirhams of cash, distributed by 1.2 billion dirhams in the Abu Dhabi market and 235.07 million dirhams in the Dubai market, and about 340.28 million shares are been traded through the implementation of over 17.2 thousand transactions.
The Abu Dhabi Market Index, ‘Vadex 15’, was up 0.35% to close at 10,350.64 points, while the FTSE Abu Dhabi General Market Index, ‘Fadji’, was up 0.3% to close at 10,358 .4 points, while the Dubai General Market Index The index reached the level of 3340.13 points.
The performance of the Abu Dhabi market was strengthened by the growth of the shares of “Abu Dhabi Ports” by 3.6%, “Taqa” by 2.61%, “Al-Dar” by 2.01%, “First Abu Dhabi ” by 1.52%, “ADNOC Drilling” by 0.65% and “International Holding” by 0.39%, with topping the list of the most active After attracting liquidity of about 233.3 million dirhams.
And the performance of the Dubai market was supported by the increase in the share of “Emaar Properties” of 1.88%, which leads the list of assets with liquidity that exceeded 63.5 million dirhams and “ Tabreed” by 2.14%.