Investing.com – United Arab Emirates stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Finance & Investment, Real Estate & Construction and Insurance sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Dubai, the DFM General fell 1.80%, while the ADX General index fell 0.81%.
The best performers of the session on the DFM General were Mashreqbank PSC (DU:MASB), which rose 4.00% or 3.00 points to trade at 78.00 at the close. Meanwhile, AJMAN BANK PJSC (DU:AJBNK) added 1.52% or 0.030 points to end at 2.000 and Dubai Islamic Insurance Co. (DU:AMAN) was up 1.14% or 0.007 points to 0.619 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Dubai Investments PJSC (DU:DINV), which fell 5.07% or 0.110 points to trade at 2.060 at the close. Gulf General Investments Company (DU:GGIC) declined 4.41% or 0.030 points to end at 0.650 and Drake & Scull International PJSC (DU:DSI) was down 4.31% or 0.024 points to 0.533.
The top performers on the ADX General were Abu Dhabi National for Building Materials Co PJSC (AD:BILD) which rose 2.17% to 0.470, Agthia Group (AD:AGTH) which was up 2.10% to settle at 7.77 and Bank Of Sharja (AD:BOS) which gained 1.52% to close at 1.34.
The worst performers were Int Fish Farmi (AD:ASMK) which was down 9.91% to 6.82 in late trade, Dana Gas (AD:DANA) which lost 5.26% to settle at 0.540 and Methaq (AD:METH) which was down 3.61% to 0.800 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Dubai Stock Exchange by 25 to 6 and 4 ended unchanged; on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange, 14 fell and 5 advanced, while 6 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.11% or 0.05 to $45.87 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.44% or 0.21 to hit $47.16 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.80% or 10.35 to trade at $1300.85 a troy ounce.
USD/AED was up 0.00% to 3.6730, while EUR/AED rose 0.24% to 4.2173.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.15% at 92.88.