Investing.com – United Arab Emirates equities were mixed at the close on Sunday, as gains in the Insurance, Consumer Staples and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Services, Banking and Real Estate & Construction sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Dubai, the DFM General rose 0.25%, while the ADX General index fell 0.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DFM General were Arabtec Holding PJSC (DU:ARTC), which rose 10.77% or 0.077 points to trade at 0.792 at the close. Islamic Arab Insurance Company (DU:SALAMA) added 3.21% or 0.013 points to end at 0.418 and Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC (DU:GNAV) was up 2.86% or 0.040 points to 1.440 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Gulf General Investments Company (DU:GGIC), which lost 2.78% or 0.011 points to trade at 0.385 in late trade. Emirates NBD PJSC (DU:ENBD) declined 1.69% or 0.140 points to end at 8.150 and Takaful House (DU:DTKF) shed 0.94% or 0.010 points to 1.050.
The top performers on the ADX General were Ad Natl Energy (AD:TAQA) which rose 5.26% to 0.600, National Corp Tourism Hotels (AD:NCTH) which was up 3.85% to settle at 2.70 and Gulf Cement Co (AD:GCEM) which gained 3.16% to close at 0.9800.
The worst performers were Gulf Medical Projects Co PSC (AD:GMPC) which was down 10.00% to 4.32 in late trade, Gulf Pharm Ind (AD:GPHI) which lost 3.49% to settle at 2.210 and Int Fish Farmi (AD:ASMK) which was down 0.64% to 1.56 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 21 to 13 and 3 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi, 11 rose and 8 declined, while 5 ended unchanged on the Dubai Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.29% or 1.13 to $50.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 2.40% or 1.26 to hit $53.77 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.27 to trade at $1255.07 a troy ounce.
USD/AED was unchanged 0.00% to 3.6730, while EUR/AED rose 0.90% to 4.1166.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.79% at 97.00.