Kuwait Stock Exchange Trading Report For February 2005

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 6,741.4, points at the end of February, an increase of 234.7 points from the closing value at the end of January. The weighted index reached 355.88 points at the end of February, an increase of 11.19 points from the closing value at the end of January.

Volume of trading in February was 2,055,362,500 shares, an increase of 10.86% over the previous month's volume. The value traded in February was KWD 1,054,932,365 an increase of 22.83% over the previous month's value. There were 64,552 transactions in February, an increase of 7.12% over the previous month's number of transactions.

128 companies were traded in February. Of the traded companies, 50 increased in price and 75 decreased in price.

The market capitalisation of the exchange at end February was KWD 22,392,134,000.