Amman stock exchange jumps 13 points

Benchmark of Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) jumped 13 points in the Wednesday trading, buoyed by reports of Jordan's prospected joining of the ranks of the GCC states. The ASE said in a press release that traders were quite anxious for getting involved in today's trading to the extent that many filed their transactions applications ahead of start ofthe session. The main index, in the first our of the session, ranged between 2,192 points and 2,205 points, with rise of the volume of the trading to 13 million Jordanian dinars, compared to 11.9 million dinars, worth of yesterday's trade volume.