The Amman Market General Index closed firmly up by 0.63 at 1,596.27 driven mainly by a bounce in the Banks Index index which ticked up 1.24 to close at value 2,056,962.00. Other ASE sector indices showed similar positive performance with the Mining and Extraction Industries Index closing up 0.98 pts at value 195,997.00, the Amman Market General Index closing up 0.63 pts at value 4,389,939.00, and the Chemical Industries Index closing up 0.53 pts at value 188,198.00.

The market recorded a weak trading value of JD 4,389,939.00 for the day with a total of 3,858,729.00 shares which exchanged hands through 2096 trading contracts. The Financial Index sector comprised 66.86% of the total trading value in Jordanian Dinars.

In a broader view, the declining issues surpassed those of the advancing issues by a ratio of 29 to 24 with 29 issues saw declining in their stock prices compared with 24 advancing, and 37 issues that closed unchanged.

Currently, the ASE General Index is down by 2,293.14 for this month, knowing that the market lost 1100.02 of its value in the month of Nov in which the ASE Index closed at value 1,596. In addition, the total traded value in Jordanian Dinars increased by JD 1,014,975.00 in June to reach a total of JD 7,430,800,700.00 compared with JD 7,212,468,224.00 in July.