The Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend Thursday adding 4.75 points or 0.06% to 8,393.25 points from 8,388.50 Wednesday. The volume of shares traded down to 2,313,515 from 3,878,471 on Wednesday and the value of shares fell to QR86,089,485.28 from QR168,736,039.91 Wednesday. Top gainers were Comm. Bank of Qatar which was up 1.12% to QR72.10, Qatar Telecom by 0.65% to QR156.00, Doha Insurance up by 2.28% to QR29.15 and Al khalij Commercial Bank by 0.29% to QR17.20. Today the Qatar Banking and Financial sector gained 1.88 while the Insurance sector lost 51.86 points. The Qatar industrial sector dropped 5.51 points and the Services sector added 13.90 points.