The Amman Market General Index closed up by 0.39 at 1,796.59 driven mainly by a bounce in the Textiles Leathers and Clothings Index index which ticked up 2.48 to close at value 422,573.00. Other ASE sector indices showed mostly similar positive performance with the Commercial Services Index closing down 2.41 pts at value 32,034.00, the Banks Index closing up 0.52 pts at value 269,777.00, and the Health Care Services Index closing up 1.51 pts at value 2,363.00.

The market recorded a weak trading value of JD 3,902,266.00 for the day with a total of 3,784,943.00 shares which exchanged hands through 1745 trading contracts. The Financial Index sector comprised 68.52% 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 41 to 21 with 41 issues saw advancing in their stock prices compared with 21 declining, and 45 issues that closed unchanged.

Currently, the ASE General Index is up by 93.95 for this month, knowing that the market added 16326.91 to its value in the month of Nov in which the ASE Index closed at value 1,797. In addition, the total traded value in Jordanian Dinars dropped by JD 55,420.00 in October to reach a total of JD 6,950,075,755.00 compared with JD 6,117,844,414.00 in November.