The Amman Market General Index closed up by 0.16 at 1,574.10 driven mainly by a bounce in the Utilities and Energy Index index which ticked up 1.95 to close at value 237,747.00. Other ASE sector indices showed similar positive performance with the Real Estate Index closing up 0.74 pts at value 167,449.00, the Services Index closing up 0.73 pts at value 280,421.00, and the Educational Services Index closing down 0.37 pts at value 2,450.00.

The market recorded a weak trading value of JD 2,075,591.00 for the day with a total of 1,800,996.00 shares which exchanged hands through 865 trading contracts. The Financial Index sector comprised 56.38% of the total trading value in Jordanian Dinars.

In a broader view, the advancing issues surpassed those of the declining issues by a ratio of 3 to 2 with 24 issues saw advancing in their stock prices compared with 16 declining, and 17 issues that closed unchanged.

Currently, the ASE General Index is down by 523.61 for this month, knowing that the market lost 2934.21 of its value in the month of May in which the ASE Index closed at value 1,574. In addition, the total traded value in Jordanian Dinars increased by JD 221,523.00 in April to reach a total of JD 9,173,667,982.00 compared with JD 6,357,115,147.00 in May.