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Kuwait Stock Exchange Trading Report For February 2007

Date 23/03/2007

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 9,752 points at the end of February, an increase of 40.8 points from the closing value at the end of January. The weighted index reached 548.95 points at the end of February, an increase of 19.35 points from the closing value at the end of January.

Volume of trading in February was 2,281,611,000 shares, an increase of 14.5% over the previous month's volume. The value traded in February was KWD 1,288,270,745 an increase of 10% over the previous month's value. There were 84,230 transactions in February, an increase of 7% over the previous month's number of transactions.

172 companies were traded in February. Of the traded companies, 61 increased in price and 108 decreased in price.

The market capitalisation of the exchange at end February was KWD 31,457,746,000.