The Amman Market General Index closed up by 0.11 at 1,881.78 driven mainly by a drop in the Tobacco and Cigarettes Index index which ticked down 1.63 to close at value 1,667,387.00. Other ASE sector indices showed down performance with the Chemical Industries Index closing up 3.57 pts at value 262,525.00, the Mining and Extraction Industries Index closing up 2.72 pts at value 837,606.00, and the Banks Index closing down 0.88 pts at value 1,122,611.00.

The market recorded a weak trading value of JD 8,691,492.00 for the day with a total of 6,298,716.00 shares which exchanged hands through 3158 trading contracts. The Industrial Index sector comprised 35.09% 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 37 to 30 with 37 issues saw advancing in their stock prices compared with 30 declining, and 43 issues that closed unchanged.

Currently, the ASE General Index is up by 92.41 for this month, knowing that the market added 16745.61 to its value in the month of Jul in which the ASE Index closed at value 1,882. In addition, the total traded value in Jordanian Dinars dropped by JD 566,579.00 in June to reach a total of JD 7,158,118,648.00 compared with JD 6,954,544,028.00 in July.