The Kuwait Stock Exchange saw start of trade on Thursday with a dip in the price index so that it came to 5,954.1 points, a down of 1.8 points, by 9:21 a.m., while the weighted index was better off at 414.78 points, an increase of 0.4 points by that time. Trades came to 381 transactions, worth KD 3,320,750, while volume reached 35,487,500 shares.