Mubasher: The Muscat Securities Market (MSM) benchmark index, MSM 30, reached the level of 5,685.95 points, after falling by 0.17% or 9.85 points in early trading on Thursday.

Morning trading value came to 1.33 million shares worth OMR 605.32 reached from executing 132 trades.

The banking, services and industrial sectors all dropped by 0.46%, 0.11% and 0.39%, respectively.

Early trading saw an activity of 16 shares, seven of them made losses, and the remaining nine stayed at the same rates.

Al Maha Ceramic was the day’s biggest decliner with a fall of 5.53%, followed by Nawa International with 2.60% down and Al Anwar Holdings with a 2.38% decrease.

MSM 30 closed Wednesday with a drop of 0.81% or 46.70 points, reaching the level of 5,695.8 points, the lowest level since December 18, 2014.