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UAE Stock Markets Surge: Abu Dhabi & Dubai Performance Analysis

by Priya Shah – Business Editor July 26, 2025

written by Priya Shah – Business Editor

Hear’s a breakdown of the provided text,focusing on the key financial data for the Abu Dhabi and Dubai markets:

Abu Dhabi Securities Market (ADSM)

Overall Market Activity:

Total Trading Value: 6.532 billion dirhams
Total Shares traded: 2.182 billion shares
Number of Transactions: 124,739
Market Value: 3.151 trillion dirhams (increase of 15.2 billion dirhams from the previous week)

Index Performance:

Closing Index: 10340 points (up 79 points or 0.76%)
Highest Index Level: 10347.55 points
Lowest Index Level: 10172.82 points

Company Performance:

Companies with Increased Prices: 55
Companies with Decreased Prices: 36
Companies with Unchanged Prices: 29

Investor Categories:

Non-Arab Foreigners:
Purchases: 1.805 billion dirhams
Sales: 1.878 billion dirhams
Net Outcome: Sale (implied, as sales exceed purchases)
Arab Investors:
Net Outcome: Buying of 501 thousand dirhams
Gulf Investors:
Net Outcome: Sale of 2.13 million dirhams
Emirati Investors:
Share of Trading Value: 63.2%
Share of Trading Amount: 66.2%
Purchases: 4.166 billion dirhams
Sales: 4.091 billion dirhams
Net Outcome: Purchase of 74.71 million dirhams
Institutional Investors:
Purchases: 3.741 billion dirhams
Sales: 3.811 billion dirhams
Net Outcome: Sale of 69.68 million dirhams
Individual Investors:
Purchases: 2.79 billion dirhams
Sales: 2.72 billion dirhams
Net Outcome: Purchase of 69.68 million dirhams

Specific Trading Data Mentioned (but not fully integrated into categories above):

“they acquired 28.2% of the total trading value during the week and 19.3% of the total amount of shares traded” – This refers to a specific group, likely the non-Arab foreigners, but the exact value of 73 million dirhams is mentioned in relation to this acquisition, which is a bit unclear in its context.

Dubai Financial Market (DFM)

Overall Market Activity:

Total Trading Value: 3.436 billion dirhams (incomplete sentence in the original text)
Market Value: 1.062 trillion dirhams (increase of 6.48 billion dirhams from the previous week)

Index Performance:

Closing Index: 6150.46 points (up 56.7 points or 0.93%)
Highest Index Level: 6158.52 points
Minimum Index Level: 6004 points

Investor Categories:

Foreign investors:
Purchases: 1.852 billion dirhams (50.79% of total purchases)
Sales: 1.607 billion dirhams (44% of total sales)
Net Investment: Purchase of 245.461 million dirhams
Emirati Investors:
Purchases: 1.794 billion dirhams
Sales: 2.04 billion dirhams
Net Outcome: Sale of 245.461 million dirhams
Institutional Investors:
purchases: 2.289 billion dirhams (62.76% of total trading value)
Sales: 2.139 billion dirhams (58.67% of total trading value)
Net Investment: Purchase of 149.316 million dirhams

Key Observations:

abu Dhabi: Emirati investors were the dominant force in trading value and volume. Individual investors were net buyers, while institutions and non-Arab foreigners were net sellers.
Dubai: Foreign investors were significant net buyers, while Emirati investors were net sellers. institutional investors were also net buyers. The market saw a positive trend in its general

July 26, 2025 0 comments

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Minneapolis Fed President Advocates for Further Rate Hike to Tackle Inflation

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com November 7, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said the U.S. central bank still has work to do to control inflation, suggesting he favors a further rise in interest rates.

At the end of its monetary policy meeting last week, the Fed once again kept interest rates unchanged and analysts believe it will do the same in December. Its boss, Jerome Powell, indicated that no rate cut had been discussed, this question “not arising” at the moment.

“The economy is proving its resilience despite multiple rate increases over the past two years. This is good news,” Neel Kashkari said in an interview with Fox News, adding, however, that the inflation problem has “not been completely resolved.”

“We still have work ahead of us,” he said, while inflation is still far from the US central bank’s 2% target. Many market participants, however, believe that the Fed has completed the cycle of monetary tightening that began in March 2022, as inflationary pressures have eased.

“I’m a little nervous about declaring victory too soon,” said the head of the Minneapolis Fed, indicating that he wanted to have more data to decide on the course of action for the Fed. (Reporting Michael S. Derby; French version Jean Terzian)

2023-11-07 04:17:41
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November 7, 2023 0 comments

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Pace of Decline in Abu Dhabi and Dubai Markets: Hossam Abdelnaby

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com October 23, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

Hossam Abdelnaby (Abu Dhabi)

Local stock market indices reduced the pace of their declines in recent days, starting this week’s trading with good increases at the beginning of trading before closing with acceptable declines of 0.33% for the Abu Dhabi Securities Market index, and a decline of 0.57% for the Dubai Financial Market index.
The purchasing transactions of Emirati investors contributed to the cohesion of the markets’ performance, reaching 840.8 million dirhams in both markets, with the result of their transactions being “buying” worth 47.7 million dirhams, distributed by 16.1 million dirhams net buying in the capital market and 31.64 million dirhams net buying in the Dubai market. .

Abu Dhabi Market
According to Abu Dhabi Securities Market data, the market index decreased yesterday by 0.33% to the level of 9275.82 points. The total value of trades amounted to 888.68 million dirhams, including more than 192.52 million shares, through 13,994 transactions.
The shares of 24 companies out of 70 companies whose shares were traded rose, the shares of 39 companies fell, and the shares of 7 companies remained stable.
“International Holding” stock topped the list of the most active in terms of value with about 204.8 million dirhams, followed by “Alpha Dhabi Holding” with a value of 117.71 million dirhams, then “Multiplay” with a trading value of 72.71 million dirhams, and “Aldar Properties” came fourth with a value of 45.57 million dirhams, then “Q Holding” is fifth, with a value of 53 million dirhams. “Manazel” stock came at the top of the most active stock in terms of trading volume with 30.41 million shares traded, followed by “Ishraq” with 23.66 million shares traded, then “Multiplay” with about 22.44 million shares, and “Q Holding” came fourth after 11.26 million shares were traded, then “ ADNOC Gas” with 9.84 million shares traded.
Some active stocks returned to the green zone yesterday, as “Alpha Dhabi” shares rose by 2.16%, recording 18 dirhams, and “Q Holding” shares rose by 1.68% to 3.02 dirhams, as well as “Manazel” shares rose by 5.57% to 0.36 dirhams, and “Ishraq” shares rose. By 0.47% to 0.428 dirhams.
Regarding foreign investment in the Abu Dhabi market, the total value of non-Emirati foreigners’ purchases of shares amounted to about 204.35 million dirhams, compared to sales worth 220.45 million dirhams, bringing the net foreign investment to about 16.1 million dirhams as a result (sale). Purchasing transactions of financial institutions were close to selling transactions, reaching 744.63 million dirhams, compared to sales worth 744.6 million dirhams, so that the total (sale) was about 21.94 thousand dirhams.

Dubai market
The total trading value in the Dubai Financial Market at the end of yesterday’s trading amounted to 263 million dirhams, after 153.42 million shares were traded, through the implementation of 9,204 transactions. The general market index continued to decline by 21.6 points, or 0.57%, to reach 3729.9 points, after the shares of 15 companies rose, compared to a decline in the shares of 21 companies, and the shares of 4 companies remained stable.
The list of activities was topped by “Emaar Properties” with a turnover of 81.69 million dirhams, followed by “Emirates NBD” with a value of 23.16 million dirhams, then “Emra Development” with a value of 22.4 million dirhams. While “Union Properties” came at the top of the active stocks in terms of trading volume with about 40.14 million shares, followed by “Al-Firdous Holding” with 20 million shares traded, then “Emaar Properties” with 12.7 million shares traded.
The performance of active shares tended to decline during the trading session, as shares of “Emaar Properties” fell by 1.88% to close at 6.26 dirhams, “Emirates NBD” by 2.1% to 16.3 dirhams, and “Emaar Development” by 3.5% at 5.45 dirhams. And “Dubai Financial Market” by 3% to 1.26 dirhams. On the other hand, “Empower” stock topped the list of stocks that rose by 4.45% to close at 1.64 dirhams, followed by “Takaful Emarat” by 3.15%, recording 0.588 dirhams, then “Union Cooperative” by 2.59%, reaching 2.37 dirhams.
With regard to foreign investment in the Dubai Financial Market, the total value of non-Emirati foreigners’ purchases of shares amounted to about 106.62 million dirhams, while the total value of their sales amounted to 138.26 million dirhams, bringing the net foreign investment to about 31.64 million dirhams as a result (sale). The total number of financial institutions’ transactions (sales) amounted to 2.17 million dirhams, after purchases of shares worth 143.38 million dirhams, and sales transactions worth 145.56 million dirhams.

liquidity
Yesterday, local stock markets attracted liquidity of 1.15 billion dirhams, including 888.68 million trades in Abu Dhabi and 263 million in the Dubai market. Market value losses amounted to 14.27 billion dirhams after the Abu Dhabi market achieved losses of 8.76 billion, reaching 2.764 trillion dirhams, and Dubai shares decreased by 5.51 billion, reaching 631.96 billion dirhams.

2023-10-23 21:16:22
#million #dirhams #purchases #local #stocks #Emiratis

October 23, 2023 0 comments

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Foreign Investors’ Purchases Drive Growth in Abu Dhabi and Dubai Stock Markets

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com September 25, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

Hossam Abdelnaby (Abu Dhabi)

Foreign investors continued their purchases in the local stock markets, bringing their net transactions in yesterday’s trading session to 41.32 million dirhams as a result of purchases, including net purchases in the Dubai Financial Market of about 39.35 million dirhams and 1.97 million dirhams net purchases in the Abu Dhabi Securities Market.
Financial institutions made purchases in the capital market, bringing their net purchase transactions yesterday to about 32.95 million dirhams. The market value of shares traded in the Abu Dhabi market reached 2.876 trillion dirhams, and exceeded 701.59 billion dirhams for Dubai stocks, an increase of 3.71 billion dirhams from the end of last week.
Yesterday, local stock markets attracted liquidity exceeding 1.618 billion dirhams, including 1.1 billion dirhams in Abu Dhabi market trades and 512 million dirhams in Dubai market.

Abu Dhabi Market
According to Abu Dhabi Securities Market data, the market index recorded a slight decrease yesterday by 0.129% at the level of 9836.69 points. The total trading value exceeded 1.106 billion dirhams, including more than 202.56 million shares through 13,963 deals.
The shares of 32 companies out of 69 companies whose shares were traded rose, the shares of 29 companies fell, and the shares of 8 companies remained stable.
With regard to foreign investment in the Abu Dhabi market, the total value of purchases of shares by non-Emirati foreigners amounted to about 280.75 million dirhams, compared to sales worth 278.77 million dirhams, bringing the net foreign investment to about 1.97 million dirhams as a result of “purchase”.
Purchasing transactions from financial institutions increased over selling transactions, reaching 754.44 million dirhams, compared to sales worth 721.48 million dirhams, so that the total “purchase” amounted to about 32.95 million dirhams.

Dubai market
The total trading value in the Dubai Financial Market at the close of trading yesterday amounted to 511.95 million dirhams, after 133.67 million shares were traded, through the implementation of 8,835 transactions.
The general market index closed at a new high of 13.51 points, or 0.32%, to reach 4182 points, after the shares of 17 companies rose, compared to the decline of the shares of 19 companies, and the shares of 3 companies remained stable.

Foreign investment
With regard to foreign investment in the Dubai Financial Market, the total value of non-Emirati foreigners’ purchases of shares amounted to about 303.51 million dirhams, while the total value of their sales amounted to 264.16 million dirhams, bringing the net foreign investment to about 39.35 million dirhams as a result of “purchase.” The total number of financial institutions’ transactions amounted to “sell” at 54.94 million dirhams, after purchases of shares worth 337.54 million dirhams and sales transactions worth 392.49 million dirhams.

2023-09-25 21:02:10
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September 25, 2023 0 comments

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Bank of Japan Expected to Maintain Monetary Policy Status Quo

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com April 21, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is expected to maintain the status quo on monetary policy at its monetary policy meeting on June 27-28. Multiple sources said. Although upward pressure on prices is increasing at present, the 2% inflation target is still far from being achieved in a sustainable and stable manner amid high uncertainties in overseas economies, etc. .

On April 21, the Bank of Japan is expected to maintain the status quo in its monetary policy meeting on April 27-28. Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz

Yield curve control (YCC) will continue, and the fluctuation range of the 10-year interest rate will remain unchanged at about 0.5%. Regarding the distortion of the yield curve, which was seen as a problem at the beginning of the year, Governor Kazuo Ueda pointed out that it is “generally smoother than before.” After the fluctuation range of long-term interest rates widened in December last year, the Bank’s measures for money market operations, such as the expansion of operations on common collateral and the raising of minimum lending rates for the complementary supply of government bonds, have achieved their intended effects. There is a view that there is.

The decision-making meeting starting on the 27th will be the first decision-making meeting under Governor Ueda. Regarding the forward guidance of monetary policy, it is expected to discuss the pros and cons of deleting the part that said, “We will closely monitor the impact of the new coronavirus.” However, even if this wording is amended, we will maintain the part that indicated room for future reductions in the policy interest rate, stating that “it is assumed that the policy rate will remain at or below the current level of short- and long-term interest rates.” It is expected that the central bank will emphasize its policy of continuing monetary easing.

At the decision-making meeting, the “Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices” (Outlook Report) will also be discussed. For fiscal 2025, when forecasts will be added from this time, the outlook for the consumer price index (excluding fresh food and core CPI) is likely to be in the high 1% range year-on-year.

Some members have a bullish view on the future of prices, so there is a possibility that the growth rate will be in the 2% range. As a result, there are many voices saying that it is difficult to predict that the price target will be achieved in a sustainable and stable manner.

Monetary policy is expected to remain unchanged at its April meeting, but some within the BOJ say the YCC could be revised once the final results of this year’s spring labor offensive are revealed. According to the fourth round of the spring labor offensive, which was announced on the 13th, the rate of increase in wages, including regular wage increases, was 3.69%, and there are many voices within the Bank of Japan saying that the rate of increase is higher than expected. At the meeting of branch managers on the 20th, there were many reports that, in response to the growing sense of labor shortages and rising prices, even small and medium-sized enterprises have implemented bare wages for the first time in a long time, and that “movements for wage increases are spreading.”

Those who anticipate an early revision of the YCC believe that if the final tally of the spring labor offensive, which is usually released in early July, confirms the wage increase rate, including that of small and medium-sized enterprises, it will be possible to revise the policy.

However, the early policy revision theory is limited to the BOJ at this point. Governor Ueda said at a press conference on the 12th that the BOJ should pay more attention to the risk of prematurely ending monetary easing and failing to achieve its 2% inflation target, rather than the risk of a delay in responding to rising prices. It has said.

At the moment, skepticism stands out at the Bank of Japan as to whether next year’s spring labor offensive will be as strong as this year’s. There is a possibility that the slowdown of the US economy will intensify in the second half of the fiscal year. The manifestation of the US economic slowdown could cast a shadow over the movements of both labor and management in preparation for next year’s spring labor offensive.

The BOJ believes that a hasty revision of monetary policy before expectations for sustained wage increases turn into “confidence” will cool people’s sentiments, leading to wage increases leading to consumer spending and corporate price hikes. Some have pointed out that this could have a negative impact on the virtuous circle that the Bank of Japan is aiming for.

(Takahiko Wada, Reika Kihara Editing: Hitoshi Ishida)

April 21, 2023 0 comments

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An Interaction is Provoked by a Western Expert’s Answer to “When Will Saudi Arabia Attain Literal Superpower Status”

by Chief editor of world-today-news.com March 23, 2023

written by Chief editor of world-today-news.com

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists circulated on social media, a video clip of the economic analyst at Freedom Asset Management, Simon Ventam Fletcher, and what he said about the economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The analyst’s remarks in the circulating video came during an interview he gave on CNBC, where he was asked, “At what stage will we see the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a literal superpower, not only in terms of oil, but in terms of financial markets as well?” He replied, “It will happen very soon and in more time.” Closer than a lot of people think…”

“There is actually an interesting movement in global dynamics and what we’re seeing recently is that the Middle East is becoming more important, it’s almost becoming a new Switzerland,” the analyst added.

And the analyst continued in the interview, which was conducted with him and was published by the channel, on Monday: “Europe is a wonderful tourist destination, but is it the economic destination for the future?”

March 23, 2023 0 comments

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