Doha – Mubasher: The main index of the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) ended Tuesday’s session rising by 1.57% or 168.4 points to the level of 10,927.83 points.

Trading volume increased to 16.39 million shares from 8.52 million shares exchanged on Monday, turnover also rose to QAR 484.73 million from QAR 302.29 million.

The real estate sector advanced 3.4% as Barwa and Ezdan leapt 3.66 and 3.62% respectively.

The banking sector rose 1.12% due to an increase of 6% in Doha Bank, the best performing stock, while Alijarah topped losers with a 1.2% fall.

Ezdan led the trading activity with a volume of 4.18 million shares exchanged at QAR 68.24 million.