6pm Holdings placed as the best performer of the day as the equity edged up 2.44% on a single trade of 1,498 shares to close at a fresh 52-week high of £0.42.

GO hit a new 52-week high as 2,500 shares were negotiated across three deals to close at €1.40.

Major Banks registered further gains with HSBC moving 0.18% higher to close at €2.76 whilst Bank of Valletta edged up 0.13% to finish Friday’s session at €2.27.

Crimsonwing was the only equity to move lower down 1.82% on a significant volume of 65,000 shares to finish the last session of the week at €0.54.

FIMBank, International Hotel Investments and MaltaPost were the only other active equities of the day with all of them closing unchanged at US$1.00, €0.75 and €1.05 respectively.

The MSE index registered a week on week gain of 0.64% or 20.725 index points to close at a 16-week high of 3269.045.

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