The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 10,067 points at the end of December, an increase of 312 points from the closing value at the end of November. The weighted index reached 531.71 points at the end of December, an increase of 17.71 points from the closing value at the end of November.
Volume of trading in December was 3,346,137,500 shares, an increase of 2.2% over the previous month's volume. The value traded in December was KWD 1,648,487,405 an increase of 6% over the previous month's value. There were 131,374 transactions in December, an increase of 4.5% over the previous month's number of transactions.
173 companies were traded in December. Of the traded companies, 33 increased in price and 140 decreased in price.
The market capitalisation of the exchange at end December was KWD 30,630,281,410,000.
