Liquidity in domestic stock markets exceeded 2.7 billion dirhams, distributed at 1.74 billion dirhams on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and 1.001 billion dirhams on the Dubai Financial Market, after 619.4 million shares were traded through more than 45,800 transactions.

Total market capitalisation reached approximately 3.893 trillion dirhams, comprising 2.898 trillion dirhams for shares listed on the Abu Dhabi market and 995.1 billion dirhams for shares on the Dubai Financial Market.

Emaar Properties and Emaar Development shares together captured nearly half of Dubai market liquidity, accounting for 490.1 million dirhams of the market's total liquidity of 1.001 billion dirhams.

The Dubai market index closed at 6,024.59 points, down 1.43%. Spinneys shares rose 2.4%, Mashreqbank gained 1.53%, Ithmaar Holding climbed 1.01%, and Iktitab Holding advanced 0.92%. Meanwhile, National Cement shares fell 4.95%, BHM Capital dropped 4.27%, DEWA declined 4.14%, and Agility Public Warehousing fell 3.5%.

The Dubai market saw 3 large direct block trades executed on shares of Etihad Energy Holding (formerly Gulf Navigation) with a total value of 89.98 million dirhams. The transactions covered 29.5 million shares at an execution price of 3.05 dirhams per share.

UAE investors moved toward buying with a net investment of 203 million dirhams, having recorded purchases worth 589.7 million dirhams against sales of approximately 386.7 million dirhams.

The FTSE Abu Dhabi General Index (FADGI) closed at 9,876.06 points, marginally lower by 1.17%.

ADNOC Gas led activity on the Abu Dhabi market, capturing the largest share of total trading with liquidity of 461 million dirhams, followed by Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank attracting 335.3 million dirhams, then Aldar Properties with liquidity of 134.5 million dirhams.

Among the gainers on the Abu Dhabi market were Aram Group shares, up 2.5%, GFH up 1.8%, National Corporation for Tourism and Hotels up 1.37%, and Emirates Driving Company up 1.3%.

On the other side, Orascom shares fell 4.7%, Umm Al Quwain General Investments declined 4.5%, Aldar Properties dropped 3.9%, and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank fell 3.83%.

Most Arab stock market indices retreated, with the Saudi Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) falling 0.67%, Kuwait's index down 0.21%, Qatar's index down 0.38%, and Muscat down 0.43%, while the Bahrain index closed flat. Outside the Gulf region, Egypt's stock exchange index fell 0.52%.

The Saudi market's TASI index declined 0.67% to close at 10,933 points, with trading volume of 4.2 billion riyals.

Saudi Aramco shares fell 1% to 26.14 riyals, while shares of Dar Al Arkan, Al Masafi, VAPCO, Al Tatweer Food, Bawan, Makkah, Tabuk Agriculture, DPS, Kingdom Holding, and BurgerRizer declined by between 1% and 6%.

In contrast, Nassij topped the list of gainers with a rise of 10%, Al Rajhi Bank shares rose 1% to 66.35 riyals, and SABIC Agri-Nutrients jumped 5% to 14.70 riyals.

Egyptian stock exchange indices fell broadly at the close of Thursday's session, with market capitalisation losing 25.531 billion pounds to close at 3,691,565 trillion pounds.

Egypt's benchmark EGX 30 index fell 0.52% to close at 51,443 points, while the EGX 30 Capped index lost 0.72% to close at 63,110 points, and the EGX 30 Total Return index dropped 0.51% to close at 23,999 points.

The small and mid-cap EGX 70 Equal Weight index fell 0.35% to close at 15,511 points, while the EGX 100 Equal Weight index declined 0.57% to close at 21,196 points.

The Amman Stock Exchange rose, supported by buying in blue-chip shares amid healthy liquidity.

The general share index closed up 0.54% at 3,865 points, with the financial sector index rising 1.26%, while the services sector index fell 0.09% and the industrial sector index declined 1.37%.

Comparing closing prices of traded companies, 36 companies saw their share prices rise while 31 companies recorded declines.