Trading Report For Kuwait Stock Exchange - February 2000

The index of Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 1368.5 at the end of February. This was an decrease of 17.7 points from the close registered at the end of January. In February 422,522,500 shares were traded, an increase of 74.47% over the January volume. Value traded was KWD57,402,300, an increase of 31.91% over January's traded value. In February there were 8,843 transactions, an increase of 93.03 over the January figure.

At end February 85 companies were listed on the exchange. The shares of 78 companies were traded in February; 27 shares increased price, 47 shares decreased in price and 4 companies were unchanged. The market capitalisation at the end of February was KWD5,808,863,000.