The Bahrain Stock Exchange leads the Arab financial markets in February 4.30 %

Zahra Habib

The Bahrain Stock Exchange recorded a distinguished performance during the month of February 2025, as the emerging markets topped 4.30%, followed by Kuwait and Tunisia exchanges by 4.07% and 3.97%, respectively.

The market index increased by 4.30%, achieving the highest growth rate among all Arab exchanges covered in the monthly bulletin of the Arab financial markets issued by the Arab Monetary Fund.

Six Arab stock exchange indicators have closed at rises driven by the rise of a number of sectors, including real estate, communications and banks, in addition to the sectors of services, consumer materials and commodities, which contributed to the trading volume.

While the indicators of seven Arab stock exchanges recorded a decrease, the decline ranged between 0.11% such as Abu Dhabi market and 2.45% for the Saudi market, as a result of the sales pressures that were concentrated in the energy, insurance and public facilities sectors.

The newsletter report indicated that the Abu Dhabi, Amman and Iraq stock exchanges witnessed a decrease of about 0.11, 0.89 and 1.01 percent, respectively, and the stock exchanges of Qatar, Muscat, Palestine and Saudi Arabia recorded a decline in rates ranging between 2.07 and 2.45%.

The report stated that the global and Arab financial markets witnessed severe fluctuations during February 2025, due to their influence on commercial tensions and the raising of American customs tariffs, which led to the decline in the stock index across the United States, Europe and Asia, and the Arab markets were not immune from that.

The Bahrain Stock Exchange also topped the Arab stock exchanges, at the level of the increase in the market value, with the improvement of its index by 4.27%, to exceed 20 billion dollars at the end of February 2025, followed by the Kuwait Stock Exchange by 4.07%.

At the level of the high trading value, Bahrain recorded an increase of 6,888.38%, and its contribution to the monthly change of trading value constitutes 1.15 percentage points, while the Kuwait Stock Exchange came the largest contributing to the trading value of 4.22 percentage points.

The value of trading in the Bahrain Stock Exchange markets until the end of February 2025 billion US dollars exceeded the market contribution in the total trading value of 1.15 percentage points.

In addition, the strong performance of the Bahrain Stock Exchange reflects a state of relative stability and gradual improvement in investor morale, especially in light of the continuation of economic initiatives and stimulating financial policies, and it is expected that regional markets will continue to be affected by global developments, oil prices, and monetary policies in the next stage.