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Abu Dhabi on August 18 /
The liquidity of the local financial markets exceeded during a week 8.42 billion dirhams, 6 billion of which were in the Abu Dhabi market and about 2.4 billion in the Dubai Financial Market.
The week ending today witnessed the trading of 2.58 billion shares distributed by 1.38 billion shares in the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and about 1.2 billion shares in the Dubai Financial Market.
Market capitalization at the end of this week amounted to 3.543 trillion dirhams, distributed by 2.85 trillion dirhams in the Abu Dhabi market and about 685 billion dirhams in the Dubai Financial Market.
On the daily level, the local financial markets ended the last sessions of the week in the green zone, as the Abu Dhabi financial market rose the session by 0.23% at the level of 9800.65 points, and the Dubai market rose by the end of the session by 0.037% to 4050.59.
The value of trading in the Abu Dhabi Financial Market during today’s session amounted to 998.75 million dirhams on 267.18 million shares that were traded through 12,901 transactions.
The Global Holding share topped the transactions with a value of 202.67 million dirhams, followed by Ras Al Khaimah Real Estate with 117.9 million dirhams.
In Dubai, the general index rose at the end of the session, after transactions amounting to 473.9 million dirhams on 198.46 million shares that were traded through 7108 deals.
Ajman Bank topped the transactions in terms of value with 193.4 million dirhams, followed by Emirates NBD with a value of 54.8 million dirhams, then Emaar Properties with 45.9 million dirhams.
With regard to foreign investment in the Dubai Financial Market during today’s session, the value of purchases of non-Arab foreigners during the session amounted to about 121.2 million dirhams, while the value of their sales amounted to about 74.3 million dirhams, and the value of purchases by non-Arab Arab investors amounted to about 32.8 million dirhams, and the value of their sales amounted to about 51.8 million dirhams.
As for Gulf investors, the value of their purchases amounted to 6.7 million dirhams, while the value of their sales amounted to about 36.8 million dirhams during the same period.
The total value of non-Emirati foreign purchases of shares during today’s session amounted to about 160.8 million dirhams, constituting 33.92% of the total value of purchases, while the total value of their sales amounted to about 162.9 million dirhams, constituting 34.38% of the total value of sales.
