Foreign investors recorded in the Saudi stock market last January, net purchases of about 1.9 billion riyals, after total purchases of 10.8 billion riyals, compared to total sales of 8.9 billion riyals. < / p>
According to Arabiya Net, the market value of foreign ownership of Saudi stocks rose by the end of last January to 211.5 billion riyals (56.4 billion dollars), from 208.3 billion riyals at the end of December 2020, According to the economic newspaper.
The foreign purchases came in conjunction with a slight rise in the TASI index of 0.1%, to close January at 8,702.6 points, compared to 8689.5 points by the end of December 2020.
And foreigners recorded monthly sales in December 2020 of 0.6 billion riyals, which is the first sales in nine months, the first sales since March 2020 amounting to 3.4 billion riyals, coinciding with the outbreak Corona and the market record bottomed last year.
and the value of foreign investments in Saudi stocks at the end of last January is the second highest historical level after the record at the end of November 2020 of 211.7 billion riyals.
and their ownership at the end of last January constituted 2.34% of the market value of 9.05 trillion riyals at the end of the same period.
