Damascus-Sana
The main index of the Damascus Stock Exchange rose at the end of the third week of trading this January by about 166.94 points compared to last week, supported by the positive results of the shares of most of the traded companies, to close at the value of 8339.74 points, with a positive change rate of 2.4%.
The blue-chip index, weighted by DLX, rose 25 points, or 1.999 percent, and closed at 1255.84 points.
This week, 17 companies recorded trading on their shares, reaching a volume of 305,535 shares, distributed among 455 deals with a total value of 305.5 million pounds, where the shares of 9 companies belonging to the National Company for Vegetable Oils, Audi Banks, Bemo Saudi Fransi, Al-Baraka, Syria, Al-Muhajir, the Levant, Qatar, Syria International Islamic and International Trade Bank increased. And financing, while the shares of Al-Aqeelah Takaful Insurance Company and Arab Bank declined.
The shares of the other 16 companies listed on the market did not record any adjustment to their prices and closed equal to the previous closing prices.
Yesterday, the market’s board of directors announced the nomination of a new chairman, Muhammad Abu Al-Hoda Al-Lahham, who chairs the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Commerce to succeed Muhammad Ghassan Al-Qalaa.
Ahmed Souliman