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Kuwait Stock Exchange Annual Report 2004

Date 24/01/2005

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 6,409.5 points at the end of the year, an increase of 1,619.3 points from the closing value at the end of the previous year. The weighted index reached 335.86 points at the end of the year, an increase of 44.52% from the closing value at the end of the previous year.

Volume of trading in the year was 33,537,219,000 shares, a decrease of 32.33% over the previous year's volume. The value traded in the year was KWD 15,275,641,760 a decrease of 6.01% over the previous year's value. There were 1,057,278 transactions in the year, a decrease of 2.29% over the previous year's number of transactions.

Of the 128 listed companies, 128 companies were traded in the year. Of the traded companies, 107 increased in price and 21 decreased in price.

The market capitalisation of the exchange at the end of the year was KWD 21,492,620,000.