Investing.com – United Arab Emirates equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Finance & Investment, Insurance and Transport sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Dubai, the DFM General rose 0.29%, while the ADX General index climbed 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DFM General were Dubai Islamic Insurance Co. (DU:AMAN), which rose 14.02% or 0.134 points to trade at 1.090 at the close. Takaful Emarat PSC (DU:TKFE) added 4.35% or 0.100 points to end at 2.400 and Dubai Investments PJSC (DU:DINV) was up 3.67% or 0.090 points to 2.540 in late trade.
Biggest losers included National Central Cooling Co. (DU:TABR), which lost 3.00% or 0.060 points to trade at 1.940 in late trade. SHUAA Capital PSC (DU:SHUA) declined 2.05% or 0.030 points to end at 1.430 and Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC (DU:GNAV) shed 1.86% or 0.030 points to 1.580.
The top performers on the ADX General were Int Fish Farmi (AD:ASMK) which rose 14.62% to 2.43, Al Khazna Ins (AD:AKIC) which was up 8.51% to settle at 0.510 and Gulf Pharm Ind (AD:GPHI) which gained 8.06% to close at 2.280.
The worst performers were Green Crs Ins (AD:GCIC) which was down 7.59% to 0.730 in late trade, Natl Bk Of Rak (AD:RAKB) which lost 1.80% to settle at 4.90 and Agthia Group (AD:AGTH) which was down 0.72% to 6.90 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 17 to 14 and 8 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi, 15 rose and 7 declined, while 7 ended unchanged on the Dubai Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.32% or 0.17 to $53.43 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.32% or 0.18 to hit $56.64 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.56% or 6.55 to trade at $1171.85 a troy ounce.
USD/AED was unchanged 0.00% to 3.6731, while EUR/AED fell 0.01% to 3.8543.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.04% at 102.45.