The Kuwait Stock Exchange began the first session of Ramadan with a collective rise in its indices at closing, driven by strong trading activity across all stock categories and sustained high liquidity levels, leading to capital gains.
The market recorded its highest liquidity in the past 10 years during the first trading session of Ramadan, reaching 90.6 million dinars, an increase of 127% compared to the opening session of Ramadan 2024, which stood at 39.8 million dinars.
Trading activity yesterday was primarily concentrated on First Fuel, which led with a trading value of 20 million dinars, followed by Finance House at 7.7 million dinars, Business City at 7.6 million dinars, National at 6.9 million dinars, and Systems at 2.6 million dinars.
The First Market attracted 45.4 million dinars of total liquidity yesterday, while the Main Market shares received 45.2 million dinars. With increased purchasing interest in First Market stocks, the market value continued to rise, gaining 0.5% and adding 235 million dinars to previous gains.
As a result, the total market value once again surpassed the 48 billion dinar mark, reaching 48.18 billion dinars compared to 47.94 billion dinars in the last session last Monday, the last session of February. However, trading volumes saw a 25% decline, with 315 million shares traded yesterday, down from 340 million shares in the previous session.
The first trading session after the market resumed following the National Day holiday saw a collective rise in indices. The Premier Market Index gained 0.45%, adding 39.3 points to reach 8,732 points.
The Main Market Index increased by 0.6%, rising 48.9 points to 7,383 points, while the General Market Index climbed 0.49%, gaining 39.7 points to close at 8,140 points.
A report by Al-Anba analyzed liquidity levels in the opening sessions of Ramadan over the past 10 years, revealing the following figures:
- The liquidity of the first session in the 2015 Ramadan, amounted to about 6.8 million dinars.
- The first Ramadan sessions in 2016, witnessed liquidity estimated at 7.2 million dinars.
- It rose in the first sessions in 2017 to reach 13.5 million dinars.
- It declined in the first session in 2018 Ramadan, to 7.1 million dinars.
- In 2019, it rose again to reach 13.6 million dinars.
- Liquidity continued to rise with the first Ramadan sessions in 2020 to reach 24.3 million dinars.
- It rose in the opening session of Ramadan in 2021 to reach 37.9 million dinars.
- Liquidity jumped in the first Ramadan sessions in 2022 to about 48.4 million dinars.
- It decreased in the first Ramadan sessions in 2023 to 32.5 million dinars.
- It rose again in the opening of Ramadan 2024 to 39.8 million dinars.
- Liquidity jumped in the first session of Ramadan 2025, to record 90.6 million dinars as the highest value in the last 10 years.
