Kuwait Stock Exchange Trading Report For January 2006

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 11,855.7 points at the end of January, an increase of 410.6 points from the closing value at the end of December. The weighted index reached 581.65 points at the end of January, an increase of 19.41 points from the closing value at the end of December.

Volume of trading in January was 2,981,416,000 shares, a decrease of 15.8% over the previous month's volume. The value traded in January was KWD 1,426,824,395 a decrease of 33.5% over the previous month's value. There were 112,191 transactions in January, a decrease of 33.4 % over the previous month's number of transactions.

156 companies were traded in January. Of the traded companies, 64 increased in price and 8 decreased in price.

The market capitalisation of the exchange at end January was KWD 38,001,418,000.