Dubai – Mubasher: The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) announced that Sunday, 1 January will be an official holiday for the market on the occasion of the New Year.

Work is set to resume the following day, the bourse added in a statement released Thursday.

By 10:25am UAE time, the DFMGI was down 0.23% to 3,512.01 points with 37 million shares traded through 500 transactions at a turnover of AED 31.52 million.