Kuwait Stock Exchange Trading Report For October 2005

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 11,470.3 points at the end of October, an increase of 1,237.3 points from the closing value at the end of September. The weighted index reached 554.5 points at the end of October, an increase of 42.39 points from the closing value at the end of September.

Volume of trading in October was 5,709,596,000 shares, a decrease of 2.5% over the previous month's volume. The value traded in October was KWD 3,033,221,865 an increase of 7.3% over the previous month's value. There were 211,058 transactions in October, an increase of 8.9 % over the previous month's number of transactions.

147 companies were traded in October. Of the traded companies, 112 increased in price and 35 decreased in price.

The market capitalisation of the exchange at end October was KWD 34,679,100,000.