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Saudi investors executed sell and buy transactions on US equities at a total value of SAR 22.81 billion through capital market institutions in Q3 2022, a fall of 55% compared with a year earlier.
These are the lowest Saudi trades in US equities since Q4 2019, when they reached SAR 13.6 billion.
Saudi trades in US stocks through capital market institutions recorded a decline of SAR 48.2 billion from SAR 71.04 billion in Q2 2022, the Capital Market Authority (CMA) said in a report.
The CMA report on the trading value of local brokers in the global markets does not include either details of the number of Saudi portfolios abroad, the number of investors trading directly through foreign brokers or their trading volumes.
The following table shows Saudi transactions on US equities since Q1 2016:
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Saudi Transactions on US Equities |
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|
Period |
Value (SAR mln) |
YoY Change |
|
Q1 2016 |
6896 |
-- |
|
Q2 2016 |
6087 |
-- |
|
Q3 2016 |
7138 |
+39% |
|
Q4 2016 |
4183 |
(45%) |
|
Q1 2017 |
7992 |
+16% |
|
Q2 2017 |
7715 |
+ 27% |
|
Q3 2017 |
8497 |
+19% |
|
Q4 2017 |
6816 |
+63% |
|
Q1 2018 |
11785 |
+47% |
|
Q2 2018 |
11078 |
+44% |
|
Q3 2018 |
7204 |
(15%) |
|
Q4 2018 |
11558 |
+70% |
|
Q1 2019 |
11085 |
(6%) |
|
Q2 2019 |
6472 |
(42%) |
|
Q3 2019 |
14682 |
+104% |
|
Q4 2019 |
13561 |
+17% |
|
Q1 2020 |
29552 |
+167% |
|
Q2 2020 |
81338 |
+1157% |
|
Q3 2020 |
114246 |
+678% |
|
Q4 2020 |
98229 |
+624% |
|
Q1 2021 |
77410 |
+162% |
|
Q2 2021 |
60647 |
(25%) |
|
Q3 2021 |
50644 |
(56%) |
|
Q4 2021 |
46206 |
(53%) |
|
Q1 2022 |
39945 |
(48%) |
|
Q2 2022 |
71040 |
+17% |
|
Q3 2022 |
22808 |
(55%) |
Saudi transactions in the US market accounted for nearly 85% of total trading in foreign markets, which stood at SAR 26.96 billion, the Saudi market regulator added.
The table below indicates sell and buy transactions on US equities executed by Saudi investors through authorized market institutions in foreign markets in Q3 2022:
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Traded Value by Authorized Market Institutions in Foreign Markets (SAR mln) |
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|
Period |
Value |
Percentage |
|
US |
22807.64 |
84.6% |
|
GCC |
788.67 |
2.9% |
|
European |
133.91 |
0.5% |
|
Arabian |
59.27 |
0.2% |
|
Asian |
13.64 |
0.1% |
|
Other |
3157.93 |
11.7% |
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Total |
26961.06 |
100% |
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