The Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) declined 0.22% on Tuesday on a high traded volume of 4.56M worth $25.90M on the back of a large transaction on Audi listed shares. The banking sector grasped the major share of 98.54% of total traded value, with 3.93M Audi listed shares being cross-traded. In details, the latter were the only traded shares to decrease in price, dropping 2.89% to $6.05. In contrast, BLOM listed shares added 0.57% to $8.80. Similarly, Bank of Beirut (BoB) preferred shares classes “E” and “H” gained 0.96% each, to close at the same price of $26.25. Meanwhile, Byblos listed and BoB listed shares were traded with no change in price. In the real estate sector, Solidere “A” and “B” shares inched up by 0.88% and 1.43% to $11.40 and $11.38, respectively.