Mubasher: Muscat Securities Market (MSM) opened Thursday's session on a negative note.

The benchmark MSM 30 shed 0.04% or 2.16 points to the level of 5,851.13 points, by 11:00am Muscat time.

Trading volume reached 4.1 million shares exchanged at OMR 791,000 through 173 transactions.

The financial and services sectors decreased 0.06% and 0.16%, respectively, while the industrial sector rose 0.23%.

Renaissance Services led the worst performers losing 2.26%, while Galfar Engineering topped the green stocks gaining 1.9%.

Galfar Engineering was the most active stock trading 2.64 million shares at a value of OMR 283,500.