The Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend Wednesday adding 4.27 points or 0.05% to 8,422.25 points from 8,417.98 on Tuesday. The volume of shares traded fell to 4,712,948 from 6,375,505 on Tuesday and the value of shares down to QR183,518,255.22 from QR200,873,176.55 Tuesday. Top gainers were Qatar National Bank which was up 0.56% to QR143.00,Industries Qatar by 0.65% to QR124.60, Barwa Real Estate by 0.34% to QR29.70 and Doha Bank up by 0.66% to QR61.40. Today the Qatar Banking and Financial sector lost 0.25 while the Insurance sector fell 8.65 points. The Qatar industrial sector up 34.58 points and the Services sector down 1.35 points.