Tuesday 9 January 2018

MIDEAST STOCKS-Gulf mostly soft in early trade, Qatar pulls back | ZAWYA MENA Edition

MIDEAST STOCKS-Gulf mostly soft in early trade, Qatar pulls back | ZAWYA MENA Edition:

"Gulf stock markets were mostly soft in early trade on Tuesday as Qatar pulled back after surging for two days during which investors positioned for annual dividend announcements in the next few weeks. The Qatari stock index  which had gained 2.6 percent on Monday, retreated 1.2 percent. Some of the best performers of the past two days lost the most; Islamic bank Masraf Al Rayan was down 2.2 percent. Aamal Co, which climbed as much as 5.8 percent in the opening minutes, was up only 0.9 percent after an hour of trade. It announced plans for an affiliate, which it owns 50-50 with Egypt's El Sewedy Electric Co, to build three factories to produce copper wires, aluminium bars and drums for cables - the country's first such factories "



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